Sunday Vanguard was reliably informed by Presidency sources, yesterday, that part of the reasons for the seeming prolonged process of resolving the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, may be the slightly differing positions of President Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State, regarded as a leader and financier of the party.

Specifically, the sources disclosed that the Friday NEC meeting of the party “brought to the open the seeming centrifugal positions of Mr. President and Asiwaju.”

One of the sources added: “At the meeting between the governors and the warring parties that followed the APC NEC parley, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was mandated to chair a committee of three that would come up with possible resolutions to the crisis.

BUHARI’S POSITION

“It was an open discussion at the NEC meeting that whereas Mr. President has consistently expressed his dissatisfaction at the truncation of the party’s procedure for the emergence of the leaders of the National Assembly, the position he has since taken has been one of reconciliation and not outright antagonism to the leadership of the National Assembly.”

Sunday Vanguard was told that Tinubu’s position, which had been misconstrued in many quarters as antagonistic, was merely a reflection of the need to enforce party supremacy at all times.

One of the arrowheads of the Tinubu group told Sunday Vanguard: “Asiwaju is not being rigid. He just believes it is not proper to kick off a government on a note of disobedience to party position by members of the National Assembly. It sends a wrong signal”.

WHAT TINUBU WANTED

Investigations into how the Friday meeting of the APC NEC went the way it did suggest that whereas Tinubu gave some conditions, those opposed to him ensured that his position did not hold.

For instance, it was gathered that one of the conditions put forward by the former governor of Lagos State was that both Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara “should not be invited to the meeting”.

A top APC member privy to the happenings in the ruling party told Sunday Vanguard: “”The second condition he put forward was that in the event that the two leaders of the National Assembly were invited, they should be made to commit to an apology letter to the party.”

That way, it was learnt, it would be on record that both men went against the grain of their political party.

“Unfortunately”, the top party leader said, “none of these could be achieved.

“And you should understand. This is a time when members of the party should engage a cohesive mode rather than one that would alienate more members. It is bad enough that we already have a crisis on our hands. To further entrench positions would not be in the interest of the party.”

BUHARI LOYALISTS TAG WITH ATIKU

Sunday Vanguard was to further learn that already, “there is a groundswell of coalition between some party faithful loyal to President Buhari and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar”.

The source went on: “Mind you”, it is not for the love of Atiku. But it is gradually becoming imperative that whoever within the party that would attempt to ring-fence the President with people that would become malleable should be checked”.

Indeed, it was discovered that when APC’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, held talks with the President, last week, the fears of the former were assuaged by the latter on the insinuation that he (Oyegun) could lose his position following his acceptance of the emergence of Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and House Speaker.

“In fact, Mr. President told our party Chairman not to lose sleep; that the rumours about his possible removal from office can never happen”.

Sunday Vanguard was told that that was why the party reposed a vote of confidence in its Chairman at the Friday NEC meeting..

ISSUE OF PARTY SUPREMACY

However, one very thorny issue within the embattled APC remains the definition of the leadership as occasioned by the new mantra of supremacy.

It would be recalled that, penultimate week, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, issued a statement stating that Tinubu was the National Leader of the party; the ink on the paper which carried the statement had not dried before the Presidency issued a counter statement insisting that Buhari remains the leader of the party, without prejudice to whatever contributions made by those who were the founding leaders.

Privately, some of the leaders of the party, who are obviously not on the same page with Tinubu, like Saraki; former Governors Danjuma Goje,Sani Yerima, Kabiru Gaya; and former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National Chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh; as well as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, are said not to be comfortable with the connotation that presently exists on the term, PARTY SUPREMACY.

Sunday Vanguard was told by a Tinubu loyalist – and correctly so – that the issue of party supremacy, as espoused by the former Lagos governor and Buhari, is good for the growth of the APC.

Verily, in the event that the APC takes a “position, that position should be binding on all”, the Tinubu loyalist insisted.

However, other leaders of the APC are insisting on the need for the party hierarchy to define the concept of party supremacy.

At the Friday APC NEC meeting, the issue could not be discussed because of what a source described as “some sensibilities that were not to be ruffled”.

The growing consensus among party leaders across the three divides – Buhari, Tinubu and Atiku – is the need for the party to quickly determine “who and what constitute party supremacy which would be codified”

BOT CHAIRMANSHIP: THE FIRE NEXT TIME

The ruling party may be heading for another round of crisis in the contest for who becomes its Board of Trustees, BoT, Chairman.

Whereas it was a known “fact that Tinubu, while lobbying Atiku to support Senator Ahmed Lawan for the Senate presidency, with a possible pledge to assist Atiku clinch the BoT slot, some loyalists of Tinubu are now proposing that he should become the BoT Chairman”, a party source told Sunday Vanguard, “but that may be a far shot because Oyegun is from the South and appointing another person from the South to be BoT Chair, would not be fair. In fact, that was why Oyegun’s job was in jeopardy because it was part of a grand agenda”.

But this argument may not hold water because Buhari is from the North just as Atiku is also from the North.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/crack-in-apc-widens-buhari-tinubu-disagree-on-way-forward/

Cc: Lalasticlala

The Walls Are Beginning to Crack...

Apc is reaping the fruit of propaganda.God bless Gej

Firefire:
The Walls Are Beginning to Crack...

You'd wished this even before this news. Nothing new.

The marriage of the “civilian coup plotters” is heading to the rocks…

Don't forget, 'APC is a party of strange bed fellows'.

APC shld beg God for mercy!

Goldmaxx:
Apc is reaping the fruit of propaganda.God bless Gej
;DApc is reaping the fruit of propaganda.God bless Gej

The N500 billion GEJ secretly withderw from the Excess Crude Account is now being put to its purpose. GEJ boys are really up and about these days..

OREMUSSANCTUS:
APC shld beg God for mercy!

God is not the author of confusion. Mercy is the key word.

MalcoImX:
The N500 billion GEJ secretly from the Excess Crude Account is now being put to its purpose. GEJ boys are really up and about these days..

Tell your oga too to release fund from the ECA as well.

Firefire:



God is not the author of confusion. Mercy is the key word.

Dey lied to d people dat dey will give dem "change", d one dey don't ve.
Now dey ve won d election, and dey don't want to give d "change" dey promised d electorates dey fulled.
I just pity all dose dat believe in dis govt, dey may end up thanking jonathan.

Firefire:



Tell your oga too to release fund from the ECA as well.

For what? You think everybody's soul is like that of the TAN people.

Tinubu is clearly disgruntled but hey, what else do you expect for the marriage of convinience that churned out APC as a party ?

OREMUSSANCTUS:

Dey lied to d people dat dey will give dem "change", d one dey don't ve.
Now dey ve won d election, and dey don't want to give d "change" dey promised d electorates dey fulled.
I just pity all dose dat believe in dis govt, dey may end up thanking jonathan.

Too bad, so early with the fraudulent CHANGE

When APC were campaigning for change, nobody cared to ask what kind of change. Now this is the change.

We all know that is what is delaying the ministerial list,it was only a matter of time before they admit it.
But seriously these guys needs to let peace reign and stop playing table tennis on this issue.

The North seems out to frustrate Tinubu out of APC. The fact that they planned to beat him blue and black if he had attended the NWC meeting speaks volume. I'm surprise Yorubas are silent on that.

i love jonathan for not listening to obasanjo. thede political godfatherd are troubles

Greed is at the root of this problem.

MalcoImX:
TANoids Consolation Assemby.
Oya everybody start to dey cry
" dia ris god ooo! dia ris godu oooo!! ....."

Gulliable goats, change how far? You and yours will never admit that you have been used and dumped like a dirty tampoon,shame go make you people have sleepless nights!

Can you remember an event where late Venezuela's president " Hugo Chavez " encouraged the Iraqi who pulled his shoe and fired it at former American's president "George W Bush" while on a meeting and he ( Chavez) accused him of speaking as if he owned the world.

Tinubu speaks as if he owns Nigeria in general and and APC in particular. If he could have his way, he would hijack the party and determines who gets what.

Tinubu is callous who is bent on exploiting all and sundry.

histemple:
When APC were campaigning for change, nobody cared to ask what kind of change. Now this is the change.

My sister it is what I asked those people during all that propaganda.

They never see something

The problem is just that Tinubu formed alliances with people he doesn't share same political ideology with (APC is having both Ideological problem and Northern Oligarchy issues)

Tinubu himself was too forward hence the need for rest of the Godfathers to clip his wings and reach , as far as National Assembly is concern .... We don't know what Buhari is cooking for Tinubu in the cabinet whether he will pacify him or left Jagaban to hang.

The Tinubus shouldn't have allowed nPDP in their enclave in the first instance but by allowing them and they delivered , they also have right to share the bounties too.

When PDP party supremacy select GEJ for second term unopposed, nPDP turned against their party and decamped to APC and APC tagged them Progressives .... The same party supremacy of APC do not wanted to give them what they rightly deserved and they took it with the help of their other colleagues in PDP.

Tinubu need to learn how to deal with Hausa/Fulani from Obasanjo or if he is to big to visit Obj and take tutorials , he should learn from how Bukola Saraki is dealing with this people. Any body dealing with Hausa/Fulani must carry wisdom, long spoon and humbleness. If you speak their language you are bomb and considered a homie.

Hausa Fulani don't like being Lord over or being commanded ,they love respect and humbleness .... Humbly tell them what to do and see them doing it beyond satisfaction .... Lord over them and they deal with you beyond your expectation ....

Ohhhh, they don't care if the world should end today.

biafranqueen:
Gulliable goats, change how far? You and yours will never admit that you have been used and dumped like a dirty tampoon,shame go make you people have sleepless nights!

Used and dumped by who? On the contrary, everyday is filled with joy just on the thought that the "Stealing is not corruption" advocate has been expunged just in time for the country to survive. I think it was Bakare who said something to the effect that Jonathan's mission is to bankrupt or destroy the country. Change is good, a million times better without the Clueless.

APC should respect Tinubu's position as an important leader of its party, while not forgetting the position of those Nigerians who hungrily wanted change nd fought for the party's emergence. All these internal crises spell doom for the "Change', we fought hard to see materialize. Tinubu was a front runner in achieving this, he shudnt be marginalized. Instead there are wise and respectful ways to ensure he doesn't enjoy the vast monopoly of power within the party. The party shud reorganize its house. Nigerians are anxiously waiting for the party's change promises...

Big eye no be open eye.

Tinubu should relax joorh. Is he the only leader of the party?