- Second name of APC is Violence – Baraje
Former Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has been described as a detribalize, energetic and committed leader with requisite experience in leadership needed to pilot the affairs of Nigeria, if given the opportunity to lead the nation.
This was made known when a delegation of a group, North Central for President 2023, met with leaders of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi state at the party secretariat on Wednesday.
The delegation led by the former national chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje and a former governor of Kwara State, Senator Mohamed Shaaba Lafiagi, expressed the need for all the delegates in North Central to give their bloc votes to a capable individual from the zone.
Baraje charged political leaders and stakeholders from other zones in the country to support the North Central to produce the next president of Nigeria in the spirit of fairness, equity and justice.
He said the North central geo-political zone is tired of playing the second fiddle in the country and therefore wants to become the president come 2023.
While describing the North Central as a stabiliser and nectar that feeds the nation, Baraje said anytime the country had any crises it was in the zone they rushed to, to fish out somebody who would eventually fixed the problem.
Going memory lane, he said General Yakubu Gowon was picked from the zone to fix the country after 30 months civil war, while General Ibrahim Babangida deliver the nation from the draconian government of 1984 and General Abdulsalam Abubakar also came to entrench democracy in 1999 after the Abacha regime.
He described the ruling All People Congress (APC) as a violent party that had crashed the country in all sectors, adding that APC lacks desired organisation to rule the country again and the PDP is on the rescue mission.
Baraje said his entourage was in Kogi to drum support for former Senate President’s bid to fly the party flag in 2023 presidential election.
Kogi State PDP Chairman, Sam Uhuotu, who stressed that time had come for the zone to produce the next President, urged members to support the agitation.
