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2023 PRESIDENCY: LAWAL WARNS TINUBU AGAINST PLAN TO SABOTAGE POWER SHIFT

Afnews Editor

Apr 04, 2019

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A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Adamawa State, Ahmed Lawal on Thursday cautioned the natonal leader of the party, Ahmed Tinubu against power rotation saboteurs within the party.

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Lawal gave the hint in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola.

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He rued the activities of some elements in the party during the governorship election as repugnant to the planned powershift idea of the party.

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He advised the leadership of the governing party to review its performance at the governorship election.

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He said such would enable the leadership to identify those elements who were hell-bent on frustrating the planned power rotation to the southern part of the country.

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Lawal, who is the Organising Secretary of the APC in Adamawa, accused some prominent members of the party of anti-party activities during the last general elections.

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"As a party with vision for equity and fairness, the APC has already planned to shift power to the southern part of Nigeria.

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"It is worthy of note that some political elements in the Northern Nigeria are opposed to the arrangement.

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"They worked against APC during the last governorship elections with the aim of allowing the opposition PDP to win more states.

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ÔÇØThis was done to build the PDP to be formidable to wrestle power from APC in 2023 against the interest of the south.

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"I am urging the leadership of the party at the national level to review the last governorship elections with the view to identifying those elements and wield the stick on them.

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ÔÇØThe south supported us to rule for eight years, it will be bad if we in turn, betray them and still retain power in the north,ÔÇØ Lawal said.

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