A chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Kawu Baraje, has lamented that the party is not living up to expectation and urged them to get serious or have him leave the party.
The former acting chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made this assertion during a n interview with newsmen in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Baraje said: was the one who announced the formation of a faction of the PDP, leading six governors of the party to eventually align with the APC in 2013.
“If I have to be grateful to any political party, I think, it is the PDP and if I can leave that party, then you will know that the party had gone seriously against my principles of life,” he told journalists at a press briefing in Ilorin.
“If I can leave the PDP because of impunity, lack of respect for the rule of law, then do I want to continue in another party that way? But it has not got to that level. That is why we are sounding a note of warning that gradually some of these problems are creeping into the APC.”
Baraje observed that the problem being faced by the ruling party were created by the party.
He said: “Most of the distractions were created by APC itself. For instance, Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is heading an important arm of government, is not getting the necessary support from the party.
“We have participated in rerun elections, both at the state and national levels, and the APC has lost majority of those elections, not because of lack of popularity but because of lack of enough presence.
“Some of us,with our experience, expected the national presence of our party much more during reruns, but we do not see that happening.
“I belong to the group that is not satisfied with the performance of the party… we are not happy with the performance of our party.
“I am not a prophet of doom, neither am I a political prostitute. Are you happy going to queue up for up to two to three hours? Are you happy that electricity is not functioning well and people sleep in darkness?
“What we are saying is that majority of Nigerians are not happy and we need to make them happy.”
