The North Central All Progressive Congress (APC) Forum has condemned the endorsement of the national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, by the Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule.
The Chairman of the Forum, Saleh Zazzaga, while speaking to journalists in Jos the Plateau State Capital on Saturday, argued that such endorsement when the party stakeholders from the region are pushing for the return of the National Chairmanship position to the North Central is not only “insensitive and mischievous”, but also an act of “betrayal” of the entire region.
He also said that courtesy visit Sule paid to the party secretariat in Abuja on Friday to pledge his support for Ganduje was for selfish and personal interest and not the interest of the North Central region, the APC or President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Zazzaga, who was a member of the Presidential Campaign Council, fumed that Sule’s action has shown that he is not a man of equity and peace.
He claimed that Sule did not support Tinubu from the onset and did everything to halt his emergence as the APC presidential candidate, because he was nursing a vice presidential ambition with another APC presidential candidate.
According to him, ”For Governor Sule to openly come out and betray his state and the entire region shows that he is someone who is not after the progress of his own state, the North Central region, and he is not a man of equity and justice.
Sule has not been doing things in the interest of the administration, and that now he is showing it at the regional level, and even down to his state of Nasarawa.
Governor Sule is not a founding member of the APC because he came in along the line, and so he does not understand the progressive ideology and drive of the party
That is why he is doing things contrary to the concept of the party stakeholders, chieftains, bigwigs and members, as well as supporters.
Besides we all know that in the 2023 election, the APC in Nasarawa State didn’t perform satisfactorily under Governor Sule; this is obvious in the number of the legislators won by the party as well as the ones the opposition parties clinched.
It is also a known fact that Governor Sule didn’t do well at the 2023 polls and if not for the judiciary which upheld his election, anything could have happened and APC would have lost the state.
By and large, what has been Governor Sule’s contribution to the progress of the APC since he joined the party? Again, what have been his development indices and strides in Nasarawa State? With the increase in allocation gotten by the states today, what has Nasarawa State been able to do or has to show under Governor Sule?
And time and again, we have had grumblings in many quarters about the leadership style of Governor Sule in the state which many frown upon.”
He called on all the North Central governors to disassociate themselves from Governor Sule’s endorsement of Ganduje immediately, alleging that whatever he is doing is for his selfish interest and not the interest of the North Central region.
