APGA’s endorsement of Tinubu renewal of Zikist alliance – Okechukwu

A basis member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr Osita Okechukwu has reacted to the announcement of Anambra State Governor, Professor Charles Soludo, that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has formally adopted President Bola Tinubu for the 2027 presidential election.

The speedy previous Director Basic of Voice of Nigeria termed it Renewal of Zikist alliance.

Okechukwu, who spoke to journalists in Enugu on Sunday, welcomed Governor Soludo’s transfer as “strategic Renewal of the Zikist Alliance of the 50s, when Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was a member of Western Home of Meeting and Malam Umaru Altine from Sokoto was elected first mayor of Enugu Metropolis and NPN/NPP Alliance of the 2nd Republic.”

“That is masterstroke basis of the Nigeria which want renewal in the present day; as a substitute of ultra-polarisarion and ethno-nationalism.

salute Governor Soludo, this was my place again in 2003 after we elected Rt. Hon. Chuba Okadigbo as President Buhari’s vice presidential candidate; that Ndigbo ought to neither disengage nor put all their eggs in a single PDP’s basket.

“That is particularly when Ndigbo reside and spend money on all of the nooks and crannies of our pricey nation,” Okechukwu retorted.

Requested of the hazard of 1 occasion state, Okechukwu brushed the hype of 1 occasion state apart, sustaining that APC doesn’t want one occasion state to win in 2027.

“I m not a fan of 1 occasion state, it’s antithetical to democracy. For me sincerely APC doesn’t want one occasion state to win 2027 common elections.

“All we want is to advance Gross Nationwide Happiness. Didn’t we win 2015, 2019 and 2023 common elections beneath multi-party system?” Okechukwu requested.

He sustaining that Nigeria has over ten political events, uncountable tendencies and can’t slide into one occasion system, albeit after we reckon that there’s a coalition within the making.

“Sure, there’s palpable phobia of 1 occasion state, due to dominance of political bandits of abdomen infrastructure hue in our panorama.

“Nevertheless, political bandit is like proverbial Roman god Janus with two faces, I hope am not vindicated, one isn’t amongst those that underrate the opposition and the looming coalition of various tendencies, which can return us into two dominant political events in multiparty system,” he said.

Reminded that two dominant political events in multiparty system is inconceivable when governors, senators and co are all shifting into the APC, Okechukwu answered within the affirmative that “the governors are the political warlords on the bottom; however don’t neglect that the electorates are usually not quartered in a dormitory, due to this fact could not sheepishly observe the defectors as assumed.”

“My takeaway lesson in my over 40 years in partisan politics is to not price any gathering as storm in a teacup.

“My candid recommendation to the management of my nice occasion, the APC, is to not relaxation on the euphoria of the gale of defections. For one anticipates grotesque electioneering marketing campaign in 2027,” Okechukwu opined.