CHANGE WITHOUT CHANGE: APC A PARTY IN OPPOSITION WITH ITSELF. Femi Ojo
Photo courtesy www.thecable.ng The recent development in our polity is something that has attracted plethora of comments across the country. To be specific the outcomes of the elections of principal officers in the National Assembly where Senator Olusola Saraki and Rt. Honorable Yakubu Dogara emerged as President and Speaker of both the Senate and House of Representatives alongside with their deputies respectively have shown the nature of what the current ruling party is. A party that rode on the gullibility of many Nigerians and the near-saint image of President Buhari with an over hyped mantra of “change” appears to me from the contemporary political outcomes in the National Assembly as nothing but an hypocritical political party whose internal contradictions and dynamism if not urgently and well-managed can set the party on a gradual political obscurity. The ruling party’s hypocritical enforcement of party supremacy over its individual ambitious member is a thi...