Overtures to Atiku, Saraki, others expose APC’s existential dilemma

Come 2023, APC’s electoral mascot, President Muhammadu Buhari, would not be on the ballot unless an unforeseen major constitutional upheaval happens. Atiku Buhari Saraki Nigeria Politics

comes as part of the immediate challenges the party is confronting. Although the party’s roll was increased by the re-entry of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara and former Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party , Senator Barnabas Gemade, the development has not solved the major existential challenge of the governing party.

Perhaps in recognition of the foggy clouds in the party’s horizon and immediately after their inauguration, the APC Caretaker and Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee , led by the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, visited Tinubu. The CENCPC secretary, Senator John Akpan Udoedehe, explained that the visit to Tinubu was part of the national consultations in the committee’s effort to make the party what it was intended to be.

The APC deputy national publicity secretary had explained that Dogara and Gemade’s return “attests to the fact that the ongoing effort by the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led caretaker committee to reconcile aggrieved members and strengthen the party is yielding the desired dividends. Despite Ngbede’s observations, the state chairman of APC, Abba Yaro, said Gemade’s return would boost the chances of the party in the state, stressing that the party has set up a committee to look at the reasons it failed in the last elections. Denying the possibility of renewed supremacy contests between Senator George Akume and Gemade in Benue APC, Yaro noted that upon his return, Gemade publicly acknowledged that Akume remains the political leader of the party in the state.

That could explain Atiku’s response when he stated through his Special Adviser on Media, Mazi Paul Ibe, that he would not return to a sinking ship, stressing that “all these shenanigans are to distract Nigerians from the monumental failures at governance…”

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