By Our Reporter
Abuja (Precise Post) – Former Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, Muiz Banire, on Sunday said mass defections were imminent in the party, adding that the factions not recognised by the national leadership of the APC might be forced to exit the party.
Speaking on Sunday Politics, a current affairs programme on Channels Television which was monitored by one of our correspondents in Abuja, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria recalled predicting the present developments in the APC.
Banire said, “The implication is simple: that is factionalisation of the party all over. It started from the ward congresses, through the local government (area congresses) to the state (congresses). It is unlikely or unexpected that even at the national convention, you are likely to have the same thing.
If you recall vividly some few months ago, I did predict it that it would happen. Certainly, the implosion, in my very strong view, is inevitable.”
According to him, most of the people that are already outside or declared to be outside by the party “will find their way elsewhere…to another platform. I think that will be the eventual consequence.”
Banire was asked to pick his choice among the six likely candidates of the APC for the 2023 presidential election, including a former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu; and the Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (SAN).
The senior lawyer, however, tactically avoided speaking on Tinubu’s candidacy, saying that he might also run for President in the next election.
Banire, however, noted that it would neither be on the platform of the APC nor the Peoples Democratic Party.
