Guber poll: We’ll sacrifice some states for opposition parties –APC

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

All Progressives Congress (APC) has said  it would sacrifice some states during the March 11 governorship election across the country.

It hinged the resolution to sacrifice some states on its resolve to allow democracy to flourish, saying democracy is not about winning everything at stake. 

The party’s national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, who stated this, yesterday, in response to the party’s preparedness for saturday’s election, said the party has accepted in good faith the loss of major states like Lagos, Kano, Katsina and Kaduna to the opposition.

“By the grace of God, just as we won the presidency, we are going to win. I would not say all the states because APC is not a greedy party. We will win all the winnable and will make some sacrifices where necessary, so that democracy can flourish.”  

Asked if the President-elect would not unnecessarily delay the composition of cabinet, Adamu said: “We just got certificate of return on Wednesday, this is still a president-elect, he’s not yet sworn in. I would not want to focus on what he will do. But you can rest assured whatever he will do, will be in the best interest of the country.”

“Then, on the issue of states we ought to win, but didn’t win, it’s the nature of things that you win some and lose some and the fact that we lost some major states, like Lagos, Kano, Katsina and even Nassarawa, Kaduna, you cannot be talking about democracy about evenness of representation at the same time looking for you must win everything. 

“The fact that we lost this places and didn’t shed tears, did not cry foul, makes us the real political party in this country. What moral justification is there for a party that won Lagos and felt it was a good game but loses place like Ekiti, and said the game is a bad one, it doesn’t make sense,” he quipped.

“With the strategic position of Lagos, strategic in terms of location, population in terms of economy in terms of political history and prestige, we lost and we didn’t run to the street crying but what is important is we got what we want, we got the presidency.” 

“They are gnashing their teeth, you can all see, it shows the level of immaturity, selfishness and lack of sense of judgment. And to put it in common parlance, they are not sportsmen nor are they lovable women…We have learned some basic lessons on what has happened, but we appreciate the fact that we cannot win some states of the federation that ordinarily we would have wished we won them.”