Saraki’s Rebellion: A Northern Conspiracy Against Yorubas – Bisi Akande.

Bisi Akande

Bisi Akande, pioneer chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the rebellion in the senate is being viewed in the south-west as a northern conspiracy against the Yoruba.

He also alleged that individuals who feel threatened by the resolve of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight corruption influenced the emergence of Bukola Saraki as senate president.

“While other position seekers are waiting in the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba,” the former governor of Osun state wrote in a scorching letter, which was made public late Sunday.

Describing the ongoing crisis within the party as a conspiracy, Akande expressed doubt that the leadership of APC was capable of handling the situation and he urged Buhari and governors elected under the platform of the party to intervene in order to prevent APC from total collapse.

Akande went down memory lane on how the APC was established and the challenges that threatened its existence in its formative stage.

The elder statesman said he had it on good authority that some of those who defected to the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are planning to resuscitate the former ruling party ahead of 2019 election.