ALL may not be well within the All Progressives Congress (APC) following the defection of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into its fold.
Latest reports indicate that many state chapters of the party in the Northern part of the country have rejected retired General Muhammadu Buhari as the chairman of the harmonisation committee set up by leaders of APC and new PDP.

It was gathered that while signing the memorandum of understanding for the fusion of the two groups, General Buhari was tipped to head a committee that would decide what would go to the two groups. The nomination of Buhari was said to have triggered immediate rejection from the camp of two former governors who alleged that the former head of state could not be trusted for the assignment.

Sources disclosed to Sunday Tribune that the former governors of Kano and Sokoto, Ibrahim Shekarau and Attahiru Bafarawa objected to Buhari’s chairmanship on the ground that Buhari had alleged hatred for leaders of APC in both states.

Some other state chapters were said to have expressed worries that Buhari would not be fair to them due to original rivalry between old members of the defunct ANPP and CPC.

A source in Kano particularly said Buhari will “favour Kwankwaso if tasked with harmonisation assignments. We know he actively worked to get Kwankwaso into the party and he cannot be an impartial mediator between our leader, Shekarau and the governor.

“So we in Kano and Sokoto states then rejected Buhari and I can tell you that as at now, the committee has not been constituted. We are also angry because they are hoarding the MoU they said they signed. We have not seen it in Kano and Sokoto,” the source said.

Sunday Tribune gathered that it took the intervention of Bola Tinubu to calm frayed nerves even as reports indicated that office sharing was a major point among the new partners.

The crux of the matter, according to inside sources, is that the coming of the new PDP is threatening the interim arrangement of the APC in which the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Congress and the All Nigeria Peoples Party shared key positions among themselves.

The ACN holds the national chairmanship; the CPC, the national secretary and the CPC the board of trustees, among others. The interim arrangement is to hold till the party holds its national elective convention where party offices will be thrown open.

As the new PDP joins the APC, two opinions allegedly emerged with the first one asking for the retention of the old interim arrangement since the elective convention will soon hold. Other strands of opinion were said to favour conceding some offices to the new PDP especially as the new group is coming on board with five sitting governors and about five former governors.

Tinubu and Buhari were reported to have supported the second position especially as the new PDP was also said to have bargained hard for declaration of the sitting governors as the leaders of the party in their respective states.

Further checks showed that that the demands of the new PDP for their sitting governors to automatically become leaders of the party in their states ignited further rupture which both Buhari and Tinubu were said to be struggling to tackle. For example, original APC leaders in Kwara, Adamawa, Sokoto and Kano are said to be kicking against the sitting governors becoming the leaders of the party in their states.

As at the time of going to the press, the APC is yet to finalise the composition of the harmonisation committee even as the leaders of the APC including those from the defunct new PDP are scheduled to meet in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Tuesday meeting is billed to finalise the fusion of the new PDP into the APC.

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