BODE GEORGE FINALLY BREAKS SILENCE ON JOINING APC
BODE GEORGE FINALLY BREAKS SILENCE ON
JOINING APC
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party, Chief Olabode George has described as laughable the report of his
alleged plan to join the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He described the recent claim by Chairman, Conference of the
All Progressives Congress, APC States’ Chairmen, and Lagos State Chairman of
the party, Chief Henry Ajomale, that he (George) was planning to dump the PDP
for the APC as daydreaming.
He told Vanguard that, “Ajomale must be daydreaming. Like I said, the APC is
not a party that is national in its outlook. It is a contraption. They are in
utter confusion. Look at all the killings in the country today, they are taking
place in states controlled by the APC. The central government is also APC.
Where is their party? Do they believe they are really members of the same
family?
“APC is making the same mistake PDP made when we said we
will rule Nigeria for the next 60 years. Nigerians have experienced governance
under both parties. Are they better off now than when PDP was in government? My
great uncle is the late Herbert Macaulay, so I am a genuine, inroad, in-depth
politician because I was born into it. They are not.”
Speaking on the chances of the former ruling PDP returning
to power in 2019 and the emergence of Third Force, Geroge said Nigerians were
already fed up with the current government led by the APC.
He summed it up thus, “Third Force, Seventh Force, Tenth
Force, is that the issue? Are the members of this Third Force going to come
from outer space? What are they going to do that will be different from what
they had done before? The hood doesn’t make the monk. I don’t believe in any
Third Force movement. You stay there and repair your house. That is more
honourable.”