Scheduled meetings of the statutory organs of the
ruling party and the CCT trial of the country’s
number three man indicate stormy days ahead for
the APC this week.

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor

The inauguration of the Board of Trustees, BoT of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, earlier
scheduled for tomorrow was last night believed to
have again been deferred a development that
further stretched the tension in the party.

The party is, however, scheduled to progress with
its National Executive Committee, NEC meeting
scheduled for later in the week.
The postponement of the BoT meeting again further
casts focus on the prospects of the party’s national
chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who has come
under pressure from the three major power blocs
in the party.

The APC was founded in 2013 as a merger of three
major political parties, the defunct Action Congress
of Nigeria, ACN, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP
and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC. The
merger was subsequently embraced by five
governors of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP
and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who
broke away from their party to join the new mega
party.

The present power configuration has, however,
lately been redefined into three with the ACN bloc
led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the old CPC bloc led by
President Muhammadu Buhari and the nPDP bloc
led by the duo of Senator Bukola Saraki and Atiku
Abubakar.

Remarkably, the differing political inclinations of
the three major groups have combined to put the
party in a seeming state of inertia. The party has
been unable to find a new party spokesman
following the appointment of the veteran
opposition spokesman, Alhaji Lai Mohammed as
minister of information and culture. That essentially
is because the deputy national publicity secretary,
Mr. Timi Frank was stopped from succeeding him
upon concerns of his past vitriolic assertions
against party leaders, notably, Odigie-Oyegun and
Mohammed.

Even more, statutory organs of the party have failed
to meet. The tension in the party worsened after it
emerged yesterday that plans for the inauguration
of the BoT may now be put on hold.

Besides the failure to inaugurate the BoT, the
party’s other main organ, the National Executive
Committee, NEC has held epileptic meetings, a fact
that underlines the fault lines in the ruling party.
That fault line is to be further tested this week when
the Code of Conduct Tribunal ruling on the case
against the President of the Senate, Senator Bukola
Saraki is decided.

Saraki had repeatedly alleged that his problems are
traceable to his emergence as the president of the
Senate. His associates whisper that the case against
him is fuelled by the ACN tendency in the party as
they allege that the case would not have been
brought against him if he had not emerged as
Senate President.

Remarkably, the major tendencies in the party also
quietly blame the national chairman of the party,
Odigie-Oyegun for not supporting their causes.
Apparently placed between the devil and the deep
blue sea, Odigie-Oyegun has had to trudge a
difficult path of not succumbing to the over desire
of the two contending power blocs, as such winning
enemies on both sides and no friends at all.

The defunct ACN wing of the party blame the
national chairman for failing to uphold what they
claim as the party’s decision on the zoning of the
principal offices of the National Assembly. They
believe that under him, Saraki and Speaker Yakubu
Dogara messed up the party and that he, Odigie-
Oyegun failed to sanction them. Complicating the
case for Odigie-Oyegun is also the claim by
associates of Saraki that the national chairman has
allowed himself to be locked in the grips of the old
ACN which produced him as national chairman.

Even more, the third major power bloc, the old CPC
bloc led by President Buhari has kept itself away
from the fray.

With the postponement of the BoT meeting earlier
scheduled for this week, the party may only have
postponed the evil day.


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I hereby donate one dynamite only for the impending implosion of Association of Pathological Criminals (APC). RIP in advance.

The wise ones among them are already applying for wailers form. #FormsSoldOut

All the strange bed fellow politicians equally know that they are all on tenancy basis with APC.

Lack of agreeable sharing formulae for spoils of war fast-paced it's eventual dooms day. Credit must be given to them for pretending all was well in the last 10 months. No honour amongst change thieves.

APC needs a Bot Chairman that can unite the party at this time, a selfless leader with charisma.

omowolewa:
APC needs a Bot Chairman that can unite the party at this time, a selfless leader with charisma.

There is no such person in APC.