APC'll continue to lose unless ... -Presidency

The Presidency said on Sunday that the All Progressives Congress would
continue to lose elections until its leaders begin to realise that the
electorates had the right to choose their leaders.
The Senior Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political
Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali, stated this in an interview with
journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
Reacting to allegations by an APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that
President Goodluck Jonathan engineered the impeachment of former
governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, Alkali said the APC leaders
appeared to have lost their focus since they lost Ekiti State
governorship poll.
He said it was very absurd for any political party that wanted to win
the Presidency to denigrate the same office that it wanted to occupy.
Alkali said it was particularly pathetic that Tinubu, who contributed
immensely in the struggle for the return to democratic governance, had
joined the league of those that engaged in acts that could likely
truncate the same institution he fought for.
He said, "It is very strange for Tinubu, someone who has led
government before, someone who has been in the forefront of advancing
democracy for many years, to descend so low as to cast aspersions on
the President of this country on issues he cannot defend.
"It appears to me that since the Ekiti election, which PDP decisively
won, Tinubu and APC leaders have lost their focus. This is democracy,
which gives everybody the right to speak; but in doing so, you should
not undermine institutions of governance. The same institution you are
aspiring to take over and manage.
"Recently, the Adamawa State House of Assembly impeached their
governor and even as that happened, the APC was up in arms that it was
Mr. President that impeached the governor of Adamawa State.
"Why should he do that and how can he do that? Are you saying the 24
or 25 members of the House of Assembly are not in control of their
constituencies; that there are no leaders or stakeholders in Adamawa
State, who worked for or with former governor Nyako, who could have
stopped the impeachment?"
Alkali said that the PDP had lost a lot to opposition political
parties, either at the court or more recently through defection, yet
he said the PDP stood firm.
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