Akande spoke like a sincere leader –Group

All Progressives Congress, APC, Action Group, AG, has risen in stout defence of former interim National
Chairman of the ruling party, Chief Bisi Akande, saying his recent utterances on the crisis bedevilling the party at the National Assembly were those of a sincere leader.

APC-AG, in a statement by its spokesperson, Segun Dipe, said the ramrod qualities of Chief Akande qualify him to see when things are skewed towards failure and was right to have called the people involved to order.

IT said: “Here is the man who steered the ship of our party through the turbulent waters from conception to birth. He did so with sincerity of purpose and great sacrifice that even President Muhammadu Buhari, a man of few words, not given to praise-singing, confessed that he respected Akande’s patriotism while acknowldging how he led the interim party ‘with dexterity and integrity’.”

National Chairman Chief John Odigie-Oyegun also admitted that he saw in Akande trustworthiness and sincerity. Is it such a person that would now wish the smoothsailing ship of the party should capsize?”

APC-AG recalled how Chief Akande had journeyed with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu through thick and thin from the dark and lonely days of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, to the Action Congress, AC, and then the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, before arriving at the APC, saying such a person knows what true loyalty and discipline are and should be taken serious when preaching them.

Chief Akande had been criticised for his recent utterances cautioning some party members who he accused of trading the party’s birthright and dining with the enemy in a bid to get choice positions.

Specifically, he mentioned some Northern elites and the New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, members within the APC as those rocking the party boat with indiscipline and disloyalty.

But the APC-AG said Akande was on point and had only reiterated what was already in the public domain. Perhaps it is making more meaning to them now that it is coming from a person of Chief Akande’s flawless character.