2015: APC is jittery because of UPN – Fasehun

The national leader of the Odua Peoples Congress, Fredrick Fasehun, has stated that the All Progressives Congress, APC, was scared of his newly registered political party, Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN. According to the elder statesman, the APC has been going about spreading the rumour that UPN, which shared a name with a party originally founded in the 70s by Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was revived solely to give President Goodluck Jonathan a foothold in the South- West in the 2015 elections. Fasehun, according to a statement by his spokesperson, Felix Oboagwina, spoke at the party’s first National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja. He said, “If we had wanted to be an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party, we would have joined the PDP without bothering to go through the hassle of forming
and processing the registration of a party. We will contest every position available at the local government, state and federal levels, including the Presidency. “Of course, Nigerians cannot but recall the panic that gripped the camp of the Action Congress of Nigeria, now APC, when the matter of the resuscitation of UPN was first broached in April 2013. “ACN chieftains, particularly the National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, went to town to accuse the UPN of colluding with the PDP to threaten peace in the South-West, purportedly in return for a phantom petroleum pipeline contract allegedly worth N2.4bn monthly. Isn’t it an irony that the purported pipeline security has not seen the light of day one year after the APC’s panic-driven outbursts?” Fasehun lauded the party members and supporters nationwide for exercising patience and courage in the face of what he referred to as “the intimidating challenge of an unduly prolonged registration exercise.”