BY EDMOND ODOK – President Muhammadu Buhari has warned that the seeming intractable wrangling within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) presents an opportunity for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to easily crawl back to power come 2023.
He said failure by APC to urgently put its house in order will inadvertently gift electoral victory to PDP on a platter of gold.
Responding to a question during an exclusive interview on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), on Thursday, the President cautioned that the current crisis clearly threatening to tear the APC apart is an ill wind that blows anyone no good.
He said it is imperative for the APC to learn from the fate that befell PDP during the 2015 general elections given current ugly happenings within its fold ahead of the 2023 election.
The President, who was reacting to a question on the possibility of the ruling party putting its house in order before its national convention, said the PDP, which was the ruling party then, was so arrogant and never believed that opposition parties could unite and come together to contest the presidential election.
According to him, by the time the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) merged, it was too late for the PDP to realise its mistake and make amends.
Speaking on the way forward, the President said; “Well, we have a time frame. We have to work because the four-year cycle is constitutional; it cannot be interfered with by anybody. So, if the party cannot agree, then the opposition can take over.
“What did the PDP do? They thought that the opposition cannot agree and come together. But when the ACN, ANPP, CPC, APGA came together, they were off. They are still off. So, they can see it.”
