The presidency, Tuesday described the official closure of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, as a political suicide on the part of the leaders and chieftains of the now rested party, saying that people of the southwest would not benefit from the merger.
According to the presidency, the Yoruba of the South West would not identify with the All Progressives Congress, APC, which the ACN dissolved into, because the only attachment with the party by the people of the region was its identity as a regional party.
Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, while reacting to the development said that it was certain the Yoruba would not vote for any party that has General Muhammadu Buhari as a presidential candidate.
According to him, “let me tell you something. ACN has died, that is by their convention and that is a political suicide for the ACN. You know ACN had no national relevance whatsoever. The only relevance they had was as a Yoruba party and they have now abandoned that, and speaking factually, they have just gone into abyss.
“So, for those who had regarded the ACN as their political outfit, what do they have to benefit from the alliance. What does an average Yoruba man have to benefit from APC or from a Buhari presidency.
“If Baba Adesanya was alive, would he have canvassed for Yoruba to vote for Buhari. So the ACN has just committed political suicide. I am not talking about personalities leading the party, I am talking about the party itself.
“The party’s only relevance in the Nigerian politics is that it was the outfit with which the Yoruba politics stood out. So since they have lost that garb, they have gone.”
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