Following the conduct of its ward congresses and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment, which voted 4-3 against sacking Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and APC....
• Party Gasps In Throes Of Narrow Interests, Ambush PolitickingFollowing the conduct of its ward congresses and in the aftermath of the Supreme Court judgment, which voted 4-3 against sacking Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and APC, stakeholders in the party have remained divided as to which path the party should tread with the ward congresses and how to rectify the leadership defects bedeviling it.
It may not be stage-managed, but members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum did not waste time to equally pass a vote of confidence on the CECPC. PGF Chairman, Mr Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, while arguing that the judgment also settled the legality of the committee, thanked the Supreme Court for the landmark judgment.
Flowing from the above, Akintola, who said he guided the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation , Abubakar Malami SAN, on the issue, argued that the tendencies that lost out in the congresses were the ones calling for the removal of Buni. But, cries of marginalisation by aggrieved members, coupled with the conduct of parallel congresses in Kano, Osun, Kwara, Ekiti, Abia, and Akwa Ibom States reinforces the need to intensify the reconciliatory efforts in the party.
Some of those who spoke through their aides vowed not to cooperate with Buni on the consensus option, saying, it would be a ploy to rob Peter to pay Paul. Particularly, the camps of Al-Makura, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume were said to be seriously opposed to the consensus option. Sources close to Al-Makura, Adamu and Akume said their disposition to the consensus arrangement was zero.
Speaking in the same vein, a campaign manager for Adamu said that the idea of a consensus would defeat the idea of freedom of choice that defines democracy. He stressed that the consensus option advocated was nothing but a smokescreen to impose unpopular persons as members of the ruling party, insisting that, “if you are popular, please come out and contest as we are ready to oppose this idea of a consensus.
It cautioned the party against allowing any of the former governors to emerge as the national chairman of the party. In a communiqué issued at the end of their meeting, which was signed by Musa Musawa and Adamu Kaguru and Wahab Omolori, the APC Stakeholders cautioned against allowing a former governor to emerge as national chairman. The group argued that ex-governors tend to behave as if they still have executive powers.
A factional chairman of Lagos APC, Fouad Oki, however, hinted that people were focusing on the apex court judgment, forgetting that the case against the legality of the Buni-led committee in Zamfara APC is even more dangerous.According to him, “If the court should rule that the dissolution of the Zamfara State APC executive by the National Caretaker committee was null and void, it would amount to the fact that everything the committee has been doing is an illegality.
“Consequently, majority of the party members in the state proceeded to the bank to pay for the forms as directed by the party guidelines. However, we were surprised when on Wednesday, 28th July 2021 – the day the payment for the forms was supposed to close- we still hadn’t seen the officials who were sent to Osun for the assignment.
It would be noted that the chairman remained unperturbed over calls for his resignation, given the way he insisted that the conduct of the ward congresses was successful and peaceful across the country.
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