Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

LAGOS – Prince Tony Momoh, a former Minister of Information, on Wednesday dismissed reports that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is planning to dump the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Momoh, a former national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), said as one of the founding fathers of the APC, Tinubu will be one of the last people to dump the party.

He also said if Tinubu decides to leave the APC, he can no longer return to his former party, Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) given the fact that the party’s certificate of registration had been withdrawn by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) upon the merger that ushered in the APC.

Momoh said: “The last set of people to walk out of APC are Buhari, Bola Tinubu, (Bisi) Akande, (Ogbonnaya) Onu and myself because there is no other place to walk to. None! We as the founding fathers of the APC will be the last person to leave APC.

“I said it specifically because many people have been saying Tinubu may leave APC. I said because of the challenges we had that led to dissolving our parties, it will be ill-advised for any of the founding fathers to say they want to leave APC. APC is not a coalition of parties".

“It is not the coming together of ACN, CPC, ANPP. It was a political association that applied to INEC under the relevant sections for registration as a political party. In other words, it was not CPC, ACN, ANPP that applied to INEC.

“We applied as individuals and the certificates of registration of the three parties were cancelled. The parties met and dissolved themselves and everybody is to go to their polling unit to register.

“So, the founding members of APC were not ACN, CPC and ANPP but individuals who belong to that party and dissolved the party before APC was founded".

“Tinubu has his powers to make decisions and others have too. But I’m saying if anybody is going to leave APC, they will be the last to leave because they are the founders of APC.

“If Tinubu says he is leaving APC today, he can’t go back to ACN because there is nothing like that again. Unless he goes to form ACN and he will start from scratch".

https://www.independent.ng/2023-tinubu-will-need-to-start-acn-from-scratch-if-he-dumps-apc-tony-momoh/

He won't try that if he is really serious about contesting in 2023

His time has passed......Buhari out manoeuvred him

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That is if APC survive till 2023

Hw can start another party.. It mustn't be ACN?.. He has the money and grassroots

Politics and it's uncertainties sef.

thelinguist:
Hw can start another party.. It mustn't be ACN?.. He has the money and grassroots

SW grassroots lol

You dey mind him? Can SW alone get him the Presidency??

cktheluckyman:


SW grassroots lol

cktheluckyman:


SW grassroots lol

grassroots na grassroots.. See ifeanyi uba.. With his money and grassroots winning senate with a fresh party

Person do wahala so tey cook soup. After soup come done make he chop you people say he go pour the soup away. Who does that? Nonsense and rumour.

hisexcellency34:
That is if APC survive till 2023

Sad truth is these two major parties will be with us for a very long while

I don't think he can leave the party he spearheaded the creation

I think the guy is just playing it safe until bubu leaves office

Leave to where? Tired of the political marriage of convenience? Seems the future is shaky.Perhaps baba is still testing the waters

Nope! Jagaban isn't starting nothing from the scratch. He will simply press activation button for "worst-case scenario" and an already laid-down plan 'C' will come alive and it doesn't have to be ACN.

..but unfortunately, ACN is dead and can't be revived again.

Yes. He is kinda stuck now

richiemcgold:
..but unfortunately, ACN is dead and can't be revived again.

PDP

festacman:
Nope! Jagaban isn't starting nothing from the scratch. He will simply press activation button for "worst-case scenario" and an already laid-down plan 'C' will come alive and it doesn't have to ACN.

So what do they want us to do now?

Both APc,ACN and Pdp are bunch of losers especially APcheat........

I didn't know that Ogbonnia Onu is among the founding fathers of APC.

He founded Anpp

Burruchaga71:
I didn't know that Ogbonnia Onu is among the founding fathers of APC.

bolaayenimo:
He founded Anpp

ANPP died when Buhari left to form CPC. Ogbonaya is just a waka pass politician, a feather weight.


kiss the truth!

But Anpp under Onu was part of the merger

TimeManager:

ANPP died when Buhari left to form CPC. Ogbonaya is just a waka pass politician, a feather weight.


kiss the truth!

bolaayenimo:
But Anpp under Onu was part of the merger

Lol.. Merger by name, No structures.


kiss the truth!

thelinguist:
Hw can start another party.. It mustn't be ACN?.. He has the money and grassroots

The one that starts and ends in Lagos

E be like say you get beef with Onu for saying Nigeria Will produce pencil by 2020

TimeManager:

Lol.. Merger by name, No structures.


kiss the truth!

Lol.

Have you ever heard Tinubu jump party like prostitute since 1999?

It has always been the metamorphosis of his former party, AD-ACN-APC.

Jagaban is not like all those waka waka political prostitutes like Atiku.

TimeManager:

ANPP died when Buhari left to form CPC. Ogbonaya is just a waka pass politician, a feather weight.


kiss the truth!

Story for the gods.Onu is even more accomplished than Tony Momoh or even Bisi Akande

IamAtikulate:

The one that starts and ends in Lagos

These people make me laugh with a their grassroots talk.They actually forget he will be contesting for the presidency of Nigeria and not merely presidency of the SW

TimeManager:

ANPP died when Buhari left to form CPC. Ogbonaya is just a waka pass politician, a feather weight.


kiss the truth!

ANPP had more Governors than ACN during the merger.CPC did not even have a single Governor

CPC had one. Tanko Almakura of Nasarawa

cktheluckyman:

ANPP had more Governors than ACN during the merger.CPC did not even have a single Governor