Again, Tinubu’s loyalist, Onokpasa, decries ‘pull-him-down syndrome’ against Yahaya Bello, El Rufai, others

A member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council for President Bola Tinubu, Jesutega Onokpasa, has again lamented the sharp division, pull-him-down syndrome and bad blood going on within the ruling APC, warning that it is high time the alleged gang-up against those who played key roles in the emergence of President Tinubu stopped.

Onokpasa, a staunch supporter of President Tinubu, claimed that certain individuals in the party and within Tinubu’s government were not relenting in their plot against former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello and his Kaduna State counterpart, Malam Nasir el-Rufai.

He warned some Tinubu’s appointees, who he said were using the instrumentality of power to torment Bello and El-Rufai to desist, saying the contributions and support of the former governors in the victory of the party were unquantifiable.

Onokpasa said that it was bad that members of the same political party could be tearing themselves up to the advantage of the opposition.

He took a swipe at the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on its manner of approach against Bello and for allegedly playing double standards on the former governor’s case.

Onokpasa, a lawyer and chieftain of the APC, while addressing members and supporters of APC in said, “Seriously, what do we think we are doing to ourselves in this party? I think we all have to sit back and start reasoning deeply, because right now, we are actually misbehaving. We are tearing ourselves apart while those in opposition are regrouping against us.

“So, we should all gang up against Yahaya Bello? We should all gang up against Nasir el-Rufai? The other day, Sam was writing an article ‘Like Father, Like Fraud’. I mean, you will attack the father and attack the son? Isn’t that the rubbish that Atiku Abubakar was doing the other day? Attacking our President’s children. He will attack the father and attack the children?”

“We are falling apart like this. We won with less than 40 per cent of the votes. We won by the grace of God because it is the will of God for Asiwaju Tinubu to become our President and that is how we won. Then, as we are, the next thing we will start doing is to start ganging up against one another in our party? That he (Bello) will pass through the backdoor? To do what?

He insisted that Bello and El-Rufai did not deserve the persecution they were currently experiencing, warning that the APC might fall apart if persecution and pulling down of members are not checked.