APC risks weakening internal cohesion by sidelining founding members – Obono-Obla

Former statesmanlike aide, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has warned that the All Progressives Congress, APC, could weaken its interior cohesion if it continues to sideline immoderate of its founding members successful favour of newer entrants.

Obono-Obla, reacting to comments made by APC chieftain Cletus Obun during an interrogation connected Arise Television, said galore enactment loyalists who helped physique the APC from its formative years person been near retired of cardinal governmental appointments and decision-making processes.

He recalled that the APC emerged successful 2013 done the merger of absorption governmental parties, including the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), up of the 2015 wide elections.

According to him, respective individuals who played progressive roles successful gathering the enactment astatine the grassroots person gradually go little disposable successful its affairs, peculiarly successful Cross River State.

He cited himself, erstwhile National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the APC, Hilliard Eta, and erstwhile Minister of State for Education, John Odey, among those helium described arsenic aboriginal enactment loyalists whose contributions should not beryllium overlooked.

Obono-Obla argued that portion governmental parties people pull caller members, sustained designation of long-serving members i...