NASS Crisis: Group defends Akande, says he's a sincere leader. The action Group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has risen in stout defence of the formal interim chairman of the ruling party, Chief Adebisi Akande, saying his recent utterances on the crisis bedevilling the party at the national assembly were those of a sincere leader. The group trough a statement by its spokesperson, Segun Dipe, said the ramrod qualities of Chief Akande qualify him to see when things are skewed towards failure and was right to have called the people involved to order. The group recalled how Akande had journeyed with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu through thick and thin from the dark and lonely days of Alliance for Democracy (AC) and then ACN before arriving at the APC, saying such person knows what true loyalty and discipline are and should be take serious when preaching them. The Ila Orangun born politician had been criticised for his recent utterances with which he cautioned some party members who he accused of trading the party's birthright and dinning with the enemy with a bid to get choice positions. Specifically, he mentioned some northern elites and the nPDP members within the APC as those rocking the party boat with indiscipline and disloyalty .