1. DISINTEGRATION OF APC
The National leader addressed several comments that the
party was divided and will crack up before 2023 saying; "“Most such dire
predictions were from critics whose forecasts said more about their ill will
than they revealed about our party’s objective condition,".
He described the predictions as premature, adding that “an
honest person must admit the party had entered a space where it had no good
reason to be”.
2. OSHIOMOLE MADE MISTAKES
Tinubu expressed agreement with assertions that the National
Chairman of the Party, Adams Oshiomole made mistakes in handling the party's
crisis.
"Comrade Oshiomhole tried his best. Mistakes were made
and he must own them. Yet, we must remember also that he was an able and
enthusiastic campaigner during the 2019 election. He is a man of considerable
ability as are the rest of you who constituted the NWC."
3. EROSION OF PARTY DISCIPLINE, MUTUAL RESPECT AND ORDER
Tinubu also expressed disappointment that party discipline,
mutual respect and order completely disappeared from the party.
"Order, party discipline and mutual respect went out of
the window. Members instituted all manner of court cases, most of them
destructive, some of them frivolous, none of them necessary. In the process, a
dense fog fell upon our party." he said.
4. 2023 PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION
The Former Lagos Governor also weighed in on rumours of a
2023 presidential ambition he harbours. He wrote;
"To those who have been actively bleating how the
President’s actions and the NEC meeting have ended my
purported 2023 ambitions, I seek your pity. I am but a mere
mortal who does not enjoy the length of foresight or political wisdom you
profess to have. Already, you have assigned colourful epitaphs to the 2023
death of an alleged political ambition that is not yet even born."
"At this extenuating moment with COVID-19 and its
economic fallout hounding us, I cannot see as far into the distance as you. I
have made no decision regarding 2023 for the concerns of this hour are
momentous enough."
"During this period, I have not busied myself with
politicking regarding 2023. I find that a bit distasteful and somewhat uncaring
particularly when so many of our people have been unbalanced by the twin public
health and economic crises we face. I have devoted these last few months to
thinking of policies that may help the nation in the here and now. What I may
or may not do 3 years hence seems too remote given present exigencies."
"Those who seek to cast themselves as political
Nostradamus’ are free to so engage their energies. I trust the discerning
public will give the views of such eager seers the scant weight such
divinations warrant."
"Personally, I find greater merit trying to help in the
present by offering policy ideas, both privately and publicly, where I think
they might help. I will continue in this same mode for the immediate future.
2023 will answer its own questions in due time."
5. PERSONAL SACRIFICES
Tinubu called on party members to embrace making sacrifices
for the good of the party.
"I have toiled for this party as much as any other
person and perhaps more than most. Despite this investment or perhaps due to
it, I have no problem with making personal sacrifices (and none of us should
have such a problem) as long as the party remains true to its progressive,
democratic creed. Politics is but a vehicle to arrive at governance. Good
politics promotes good governance. Yet, politics is also an uncertain
venture."
"No one gets all they want all the time. In even a
tightly-woven family, differences and competing interests must be balanced and
accommodated."
6. NWC MEMBERS MUST SHEATH THEIR SWORDS
The Lagos Politician also called on aggrieved members of the
now-dissolved party National Working Committee, NWC to unite and move the party
forward.
"I appeal to all former members of the National Working
Committee and all members of our party to sheathe their swords and look to the
larger picture."
7. SUPPORT BUHARI'S DECISION
Tinubu admonished members of the party to adopt and follow
the President's decisions for the party.
"The President has spoken and his decision has been
accepted. It is now beholden on all of us, as members of the APC, to recommit
ourselves to the ideals and principles on which our party was founded. While we
recognize that people have personal ambitions, those ambitions are secondary,
not sacrosanct."
"Members must subordinate their ambitions to health and
well-being of the party. Never should our party be defined by one person’s
interests or even the amalgam of all members’ individual interests. A
successful party must be greater than the sum of its parts."
8. PREPARE FOR EDO, ONDO ELECTIONS
Tinubu also reminded party members about the upcoming Edo
and Ondo State Elections. He asked members to come together in order to win both
elections.
We have governorship elections around the corner in Edo and
a primary and elections in Ondo. On these important events, we must concentrate
our immediate energies. In the longer run, we must restore the collegial nature
to the party so that it should be in the practice of coming to support the
President instead of him having to rescue the party from itself.
"In Edo, we must rally round our candidate Pastor
Osagie Ize Iyamu. In this, Comrade Oshiomhole has a crucial role to play. I
congratulate him for his equanimity and loyalty to the party and our President
in accepting the dissolution of the NWC. I encourage him, now, to return to Edo
State to energise the campaign for the election of Pastor Ize-Iyamu."
"In Ondo, we must set the procedures for primaries and
conduct that exercise in a fair, transparent manner that shows the Nigerian
people the party has left turmoil behind."
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