A chieftain of the party and former vice presidential candidate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, revealed this when he said the confab was not a smokescreen, as he had earlier thought.
While the party subtly nominated members to the parley through their various states’ governors, APC national secretariat refused to fill the two allotted seats provided for political parties with representation at the National Assembly.
But speaking in Abuja, Pastor Bakare explained that it declined to attend because the party was of the opinion that it was President Goodluck Jonathan’s agenda to stay in power beyond 2015.
“We hesitated because it was going to be a talk shop and talking show: We taught it was heading to 2015,” he admitted.
Bakare, who spoke in a political affairs program of the African Independent Television, AIT, ‘Focus Nigeria’, monitored in the nation’s capital, however confessed that it was not a conference aimed at 2015.
He said it is not a rubber–stamp conference of the executive branch of government, as roundly speculated, especially by the APC.
“The federal republic is a lie; we have a powerful, rich centre, with states coming to beg,” he said.
“After this confab, Nigeria is restructured, with the centre less powerful, and Nigeria will be great,” he added.
It will be recalled that Bakare’s APC had been in the forefront of condemning the confab and refused to send nomination as a party
The party’s leaders, Ahmed Tinubu and Lai Mohamed, had at different forums, said the party would not participate, “because nothing will come out of the conference”.
Source: Nigerian Pilot
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