National leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dismissed claims that President Bola Tinubu is imposing his views on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party and or on governors.

The ruling party NWC also described the recently concluded national convention of the opposition coalition party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC) as a beer parlour gathering.

Speaking at a world conference in Abuja yesterday, the national leadership argued that the opposition party is clearly running against the court judgment in conducting the convention, stressing it will come to nothing.

“The Supreme Court ruled recently on the case but what the ADC did organising a convention was clearly against the judgment of the court but they decided to go ahead with what I will call beer parlour gathering.

“The problem with the so-called coalition party is that it is infested with virus members. Any political party that does not respect its ideology is bound to continue having challenges. The problem with the ADC is that it does not respect its ideology,” Basiru noted.

Both the National Chairman, Nentawe Goshwe Yilwatda, and the National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, who addressed myriads of issues, argued that President Tinubu has given listening ears to the party’s leadership and the governors.

They dismissed the impression that the ruling party is jittery ahead of the forthcoming presidential election particularly over votes from the North-West, insisting that the political structures of both Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Mallam Nasir El-Rufai in Kano and Kaduna have been weakened completely.

“The Ganduje bloc is still very intact apart from our party’s governorship candidate in the 2023 election. We currently have two Senators and the other blocks don’t have a single House of Representatives member which leaves the Kwankwaso political blocks vulnerable. The entire political structures of Kwankwaso and that of the El-Rufai have been weakened to compete against the APC. I can tell you that the APC will win more votes in the North-West in next year’s presidential election than ever before,” Yilwatda boasted.

He specifically warned that the party will not guarantee automatic tickets to any member contrary to claims that the ruling party is planning for a consensus option.

On the status of the membership of the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, Yilwatda said he was free to join the APC but noted that nobody will compel him. (The Sun)

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