Nigerians take to social media, say Baba Ahmed’s dumping APC without dumping APC Senate President’s CoS position, makes him advance party for boss

Monday’s resignation from All Progressives Congress (APC) by Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Chief of Staff to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, without resigning his appointment as aide of the APC Senate President has been described as Saraki’s defection in disguise from the APC.

Most of them who made their submissions on the matter agreed that dumping of APC by Baba-Ahmed puts him in position of an advance party to whatever is the next political destination of choice for the Senate President.

Nigerians, who took to social media Facebook wall of Prince Ade who made a post asking question about the development, said it had never happened in the history of partisan politics in Nigeria that a party man in office as high as number three citizen like of the Senate President would tolerate the risk of continuing to keep an aide who hates his party but loves the job he got by virtue of the goodwill of that party.

It will be recalled the APC has been making frantic effort to ensure that peace reigns in the party and the governing party has continued to hold meetings after meetings with members of the only bloc that still holds on to his identity despite that all parties that had collapsed into the APC merger in 2014,  the nPDP.

Although the nPDP came only after the APC merger had taken place, they continue to boast that they were the reason President Buhari, who without them had always singlehandedly secured massive votes to the tune of 12 million since 2003, was able to win election as President in 2015.

Whereas Senate President Bukola Saraki leads, in disguise, the group making the agitation and threatening to quit the party although has been dragging foot on doing so, other nPDP members like Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, former Governor of Rivers State and currently Minister of Transportation, Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, former Governor of Nasarawa State and currently a serving Senator in the Eight Assembly, and others are not in support of the Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led Saraki group and have been working hard in support of the government of Buhari to get to the peak of his campaign promise to the Nigerian people.

Among the social media activists who spoke on the development are Abass Adetunji, Murtala Kawu, Lateef Adewumi, Hammed Eleyele, Bat Arojuraye, David Ademola Daniel and Omobolaji Waliyullah and they all commented in the following interlocutory order:

Abass Adetunji: “They are playing draughts. Nothing will stop those guys from leaving but the beauty is that some would stay behind.”

Prince Ade: “Thank God Rotimi Amaechi is an nPDP but he is not among the saboteurs but among the builders. Former Governor Abdullahi Adamu is nDPD, but he is not among the senators of doom! They are more.”

Abass Adetunji” “Prince Ade, Jibrin of the House of Reps is also there. Wamako may stay if Tambuwwal leaves and so on.”

Bat Arojuraye: “Advance team…….” for Senate President Bukola Saraki in his next party of choice.

Murtala Shehu: Responding to question as to who has dumped APC considering the mode of dumping by Baba-Ahmed, Shehu gave an answer: “Their boss in disguise Prince. The war has just began may.  God be on PMBs side.”

Lateef Olawumi: This interlocutor, an Oyo State young politician, described Baba-Ahmed as,  “Advance team of course.”

Hammed A. B Eleyele: “E be like say baba oloye don go be dat oooooo”.

David Ademola Daniel: “Ofcourse its Saraki’s plan to exit APC.”

Omobolaji Waliyullah: The bulk of responses came from this interlocutor, Waliyullah, who said, “Don’t be deceived Prince Ade, he (Saraki) was never an APC Senator but the usual Saraki that you have always known.  Mere replacement of the clothes of an insane man does, not in anyway, remove the insanity!
“I could further the argument by saying if you thought the Senate is dominated by the APC, you might again miss the point.  This is not to say there are no good ones.  The genuine APC senators are pretty fantastic though, but what you have in that Senate are chameleons who saw the hurricane of change and quickly jumped over to save their ugly faces.”