The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says he made a big sacrifice to ensure that the All Progressives Congress did well in the last elections.
Tinubu,
who is a former governor of Lagos State, said this at the 70th birthday
anniversary of social commentator and National Democratic Coalition chieftain,
Prof. Segun Gbadegesin, in Lagos on Monday.
The
APC leader said the Peoples Democratic Party ruled Nigeria for 16 years because
opposition parties failed to unite.
He
recalled that in 2011, his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria; Congress for
Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party presented separate
presidential candidates and the PDP leveraged on the small size of these
parties.
Tinubu
said there was also a tendency for the leaders of smaller parties to make
themselves the presidential candidates of their respective parties thereby
causing division within their parties.
He
said ahead of the 2015 election, however, leaders of the legacy parties (ACN,
CPC and ANPP) that formed the APC, including himself, had to suppress their
personal ambitions to be able to “chase away the PDP government led by former
President Goodluck Jonathan, because in the past those who float political
parties end up as its chairman and presidential candidate.”
Tinubu,
who was also part of the NADECO campaign from exile, told the audience that
progressive politics was the answer to the problems of Nigeria and that the
hope and confidence Nigerians had in the APC before the elections would not be
dashed.
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