Ayo Akande, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Chief Ayo Akande, on Tuesday, said leaders of the party have been unfair to the National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu.

Akande said it would be difficult for Tinubu to trust the other leaders of the party, owing to the recent happenings over the sharing of principal offices in the National Assembly.

In a statement released by the party chieftain, he said that the disregard for the party’s directive in the sharing of the principal offices of the National Assembly “by a cabal in the leadership of the party is a betrayal of the trust that Tinubu reposed in the party.”

He said: “You can imagine the response of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, to the crisis in the National Assembly. Saraki said his ‘hands are tied’ and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogora, said what was going on in the House ‘is politics.’ Must everything that is indecent be politics? This is unfair to the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Tinubu.”

 

Speaking further, Akande said the actions of “most leaders of the party and the nine dissidents from the Peoples Democratic Party on the crisis rocking the APC were clear demonstration of disloyalty to the party and its national leader.”

“What is going on in the party is not only an affront to Tinubu but also a cheat on the entire membership of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, who fought for the success of the APC during the last general election with everything they had.

“The simple arithmetic is that the vice-president and speaker is equal to the president. If the Presidency went to the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, both the vice-president and the speaker positions should go to the former ACN. The senate president could come from the defunt All Nigeria Peoples Party. Anything short of that is cheating on the ACN.”