By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz
Yola
An elder in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Adamawa state, Ahmed Song, has dismissed speculations of a split in the Adamawa State APC chapter, describing the rumours as a product of mischief designed to pit the former Vice President against President Muhammadu Buhari.
Ahmed Song, a two-time gubernatorial aspirant in the state, said in a press statement in Yola yesterday, noted that “it is worrisome that there are some people in the APC who are determined to create imaginary schism and disharmony in the party in order to suit their mischievous agenda of drawing a wedge between President Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.”
He explained that “these dark forces of division and disunity are not happy to see a good rapport between President Buhari and Atiku, and that they are determined to invent a crisis of confidence at all costs, even if one doesn’t exist.”
Song noted that no committed APC members would devote needless energies to creating distrust, division and disunity between and among the party leaders at a time the party should be united for the successful implementation of the change agenda.
He said: “It is not in the party’s best interest for any group of mischief makers and rumour merchants to spend their time spreading disaffection and disharmony in their desperation to seek relevance and cheap publicity at all costs.
“This dangerous politics of creating imaginary divisions within the party and among its key leaders” would ultimately harm the party if left unchecked.”
Song added that the former Vice President “enjoys cordial and mutually respectful relationship with the President,” and that the “rumour merchants won’t succeed in their selfish agenda at the expense of the party.”
