DONT ALLOW WHAT BEFELL PDP HAPPEN TO APC - PRESIDENT BUHARI ASKS FOR ORDER IN APC

President Muhammadu Buhari warns the leaders (and membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to desist from name-calling and backstabbing ahead of the oncoming March 25 Convention, remain steadfast and maintain its unity if the party is to continue in the path of victory and its dominance at all levels throughout the country.

President Buhari asks the members to look at the once-powerdul, "main opposition" Reoples Democratic Party (PDP) now enfeebled and adrife and learn lessons in disunity, mismanagement and corruption.

They failed in 16 years in power and a failure as opposition.

Yes, we are entitled to our own share of dissent and intra party discord. These are common in all parties, left and right all over the world.

But parties splintered by competing egos destine themselves to the worst possible date, the President warned

As the country prepares for the long run up to the 2023 presidential election, we all expect a robust debate on the issues that matter and what is going in the APC should be a reflection of this not the indighting we are seeing. There must be no more distractions ahead of the convention to choose new leaders."

He recalled that the APC started out with a confidence of victory and the party today enjoys that confidence in nearly two thirds of our 36 states.

Yet, he noted, this is a party that has been in existence barely for eight years, becoming the dominant party because it has thrown open tils doors to delectors from other parties, big and small.

This alone, addition to the fact we didn't start on the note of arrogance of power, nor see government as a vehicle for seld-aggrandizement, to be held at all costs, but a vehicle to bring development to all without discrimination political, ethnic or regional to our dear country made this success possible!

The party, he went on to note, is proud of the fact that in its short period of existence, it has won two general elections decisively and despite losing a few states in 2019, it steadfastly expanded its pan-Nigerian outlook with significant defections.