As I sit in a corner of my house watching and reading how things are unfolding in APC, one sees developments that are worrisome. One would think APC with their change mantra will provide to a large extent solution to the rot that was perpetuated by the successive administrations on the platform of the PDP. From recent happenings we are too far from that.

I was one of the sympathizers of APC for new government to put an end to impunity and high handedness of the then ruling party the PDP. I wasn't sympathetic to their plight because of the components but as a result of the general who turned politician parading as a reformed democrat preaching the language of change. I personally believed in his anti-corruption posture going by his antecedents in government as e- head of state and as PTDF chairman under the then military junta of the late General Sani Abacha. Looking at the composition of APC and the players, one will see that they were really strange bed fellows who have nothing in common except to get power at all cost. What we are seeing today playing out is a direct confirmation that this strange people do not have the same ideology, beliefs and objectives.

What we have seen so far is below average and beyond the expectations of the generality of Nigerians. Personally, I'm so disillusioned. The president has not shown clear leadership. He has not displayed statesmanship in handling the affairs of his party. Its either he's naïve or a deliberate ploy to put the party down. For whatever it worth, the president has failed on this first and important assignment. In my opinion, what the president ought to have done was to call the contenders for the Senate Presidency, Bukola and Lawan, and sit with them, rub minds exposing the danger ahead should there be contention among them and how it will be seen and perceived by Nigerians and the world over. That they should choose among themselves and if they can't do that he will choose for them. He should have handled them as a father and son relationship. If Bukola and Lawan where Presidents children would he have allowed it degenerate to this level? I think the president bungled it.

On the part of APC leadership, I also fault their mock election that was conducted with so much bitterness and rancour. The early signs were evident and they ignored them. There was a clear cut gap between the president and party leadership. They were not speaking one language. There were discordant tunes by them. If the party machinery through which the contenders emerged as Senators and Reps are called to order by the president and party leadership, there was no way they would have defied the part and president directives. The posture of the president that he would not interfere in the internal activities of the House doesn't help his party. Intervening on issues that bother on the election of the Senate President and Speaker of the House are crucial to the survival of his administration.

He probably might not know that this not a military era where decisions are taken by fiat. Here you must go through the National Assembly to have anything done. Helping the contenders to come up with credible candidates for this various positions doesn't in any way portend interference. It is a way of forestalling what we are experiencing presently. Senator Saraki, a medical doctor by profession, was one of the directors of Societe Generale Bank owned by his father, the late Dr. Olusola Saraki. Many said he ran the bank into bankrupty though mismanagement. He joined politics on the platform of now defunct APP and later moved over to PDP on which platform he contested and won the governorship position of Kwara State. Bukola Saraki was President Obasanjo's first Special Adviser on Budget. The question that readily comes to mindis does this guy have regional appeal?

The Senate President took the opportunity of the fragmentations in his party and used it for his advantage to realise his ambition. He was so brazen that he defiled the invitation by the president and that of his vice to attend a meeting with them and was even quoted to have said how could a commissioner call him to a meeting? Though, he has since denied saying this. In a coup like manner, he went to the National Assembly to participate in the election got the full endorsement of all the senators present and was immediately inaugurated as the Senate President. If the invitation by the president is anything to go by, and some dissenting voices decided to disobey order of the president/leader of the party, then it means the party doesn't exist ab initio. I have never seen flagrant disobedience to a constituted authority like this.

The question that comes to mind is that who really is the leader of APC? As if the coup-like emergence of Bukola was not enough, and after plea from him, the party accepted him without any disciplinary action against him. He single handedly went over board and disobeyed his party the second time and came with his principal officers against those chosen by his party. He cleverly did all of this with active connivance of the opposition PDP who are eagerly waiting for juicy chairmanship committee positions after one of their own was already made the Deputy Senate President. This intrigues and manipulations portend great danger for the president and his vice. Even Bukola will not give credence and support this type of arrangement if he was the president.

The House Speakership I didn't know about Yakubu Dogara until he emerged as one of the contenders for the post of the House Speaker. Femi Gbajabiamila was a visible figure by virtue of his the Minority Leader in the last House. I have personally met him one on one in Hartfield Jackson Airport, Atlanta, USA while we were waiting at departure lounge to board our flights. I engaged him on leadership issues and corruption in our country and he gave constructive and well tailored solutions to the challenges.

I have also watched him speak on the floor of the National Assembly. I'm not his friend neither does he even know me by name, but the party that produced Dogara and him had endorsed him over Dogara. But one would have thought that Dogora and his members would back down and toe the line of their party. Jubrin granted interviews in both electronic and print media condemning the action and decision of the party on which they emerged as House members. He took paid adverts condemning the leadership. I have never seen such ungrateful and shameless act by those who claim to be leaders in their own right.

In my analysis of the House election for the Speaker, Gbajabiamila did not lose it because Dogora is more popular but because some people felt that Bola Ahmed Tinub's influence should be whittled down and the fastest way to do that was to work against tacitly the emergence of Gbajabiamila as the House Speaker. If APC must give dividends of democracy they promised, it must start to put its house in other. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Early signs from present happening are not encouraging and the opposition is cashing on this window of opportunity to reposition itself very fast. However, we should also not forget the role played in the 7th Assembly by the then ACN towards the emergence of Tambunwal against the candidacy of Mrs. Mulikat Akande which was the preferred candidate of the then ruling PDP and its leadership.

Finally, the president must act and act fast if he is really in-charge. He should call all the warring factions and address the issues and put a stop to all bickering and in-fighting and put the nation on a good pedestal. He should realise four years is just around the corner. If these issues are not tackled, they will constitute major stumbling blocks toward achieving desired objectives of his administration. News already making the round is that a lot are so disillusioned with the outcome so far and others are saying it's more of work managing success than the achieving success in itself. APC should not live to fulfill these negative predictions against it but work to deliver on dividends of democracy and turn around an already battered economy.