Muhammadu
Buhari, the president of Nigeria, has expressed worry over the lingering
leadership crisis among members of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, in
the
National Assembly.
The
president, speaking on “Good Morning Nigeria”, a programme aired on national
television, on Monday, February 12, 2018, and monitored by The Trent, said he
did not want to be seen as interferring in the internal affairs of another
branch of government.
“I have to
be very sensitive to the constitution of the country. I do not like to be told
by anybody, especially the legislators, that I am interferring in their matter.
There are three arms of government—Executive, legislature and the judiciary.”
“Over the
last 16 years, they have developed the system of choosing their leaders. There
is no way I can directly interfere. All I can do through the party is to appeal
to their conscience that what I already observed, we should go over it as soon
as possible.”
“When I say
‘WE’, I mean the APC. We cannot win the battle and lose the war. We must not
allow individual personal ambition to succeed in dividing us and allow the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to deal with us. This is what the National
Assembly has allowed so far.”
“The APC is
giving the PDP allowance to take over the government again. This is extremely
disheartening, I am very worried,” the president said expressing his
frustration.
“The only
thing I can do is to appeal to the conscience of the APC members in the Senate
and House. It took us time to get to where we are. I don’t want personal
ambitions to scuttle our success and, therefore, fail to deliver on our
promises to the nation.”
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