President Muhammadu Buhari today maintained that despite he is being accused of aloofness, and lack of grip in his party affairs, he is still the leader of the party.

He made veiled reference to remarks by some senior members of the party who have refused to recognize Buhari as leader of the party as it was during the days of Ex President’s Goodluck Jonathan, and Olusegun Obasanjo.

Top brass, and one of the leaders, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu had indicted the president for failing to get involved in the party’s affair which led to the current messy situation within the party’s caucus in the National Assembly.

According to Tinubu; “Despite the choice of National Assembly leaders being a mixture of party politics and legislative duty, the aloofness, or the perceived neutrality of the President allowed the ‘fight’ within APC to fester until it went of hand.”

Spokesman, Lai mohammed had also derided the president when he insisted that Buhari is not the party leader but ‘a product of the APC’, but that the leader is Tinubu.

He had said ” President Muhammadu Buhari is not our leader, he is a product of the party. Tinubu is our leader”

But on Channels TV’s programme earlier today, the president maintained that he remained consistent in his belief that the legislature is independent and that would guide his approach to the leadership crisis.

The crisis in the National Assembly has been blamed on the APC’s seeming stance that they do not have an individual as their leader, who could drive the effort to unify the party in times of crisis, but speaking for his boss today, presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu disagreed.

“Does it need to be said? I don’t think it needs to be said that the President is the leader of his party. There’s no question about it,” Mr Shehu said.

He added that there is need for Nigerians to understand the basics of politics as the country is no more in the military era when decrees are made by a single leader.

“Politics, as its theory says, is basically about contest for interests and these interests may be fully defined by political party programme (while) some of these things may be outside political party programme,” he said, adding that coming from different states there would be different needs influencing the interests every politician would promote.

He also noted that the lawmakers should be appreciated for allowing varying views, “They just cannot pile up in a single line and say ‘here we are, we are all present’.

“When the governors met with the President they told him that ‘we are the leaders in our states and we have influence over all of these senators. They come from our places and from us and we can handle it.”

He affirmed that if the governors are unable to resolve the matter then the President would wade in directly.

“The President has a responsibility to the party, the President has a responsibility to the nation and as far as we are looking at the situation it has not gotten out of control. It is still within manageable parameters, it is a little storm we will overcome and Nigerians better get used to it.”

http://spynigeria.com/tinubu-lai-mohammed-are-wrong-i-remain-leader-of-apc-buhari/

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Tinubu and Lie Lie Mohammed are correct for once.
A dullard cannot be the leader of a party. Between Buhari and a snail, don't kno which is slower.

APC I hope no be [size=18pt]ONE CHANCE[/size] season we dey so ?

Tinubu is still in the opposition

Very soon he will circulate the memo to his constituents to stop chanting "Sai Baba"

lol

Buhari is a terrorist - Elrufai

APC in Government but PDP in power..opposition is APC calling by default

I just dey mind my business.

I wonder what swest media propaganda brains will be up to now. They'v kicked GEJ out, SR started early in Buhari's administration to criticise him to decive pple dat they never worked for anybody. Guess now things ain't working for their master(s), they will adopt their pre-planned deceipt of engaging fully in propanganda though it will yield nothing and only makes them more sophisticated fools.

These same pple were hailing their master as Jagaban and Awo incarnation b4 and immediately after the election. Now some get annoyed to see u mention him and their pple together, asking how he represents a whole tribe.

They said they wanted change, a right change, how come they are not happy with due process in the change they brought.



Now they are against their fellow simply because they are not achieving their selfish interest behind their change mantra


I hear pple say they will vote out the way they voted in. Who told u, u voyed someone in ?

Obj d devilish rigger played his game he knows best with Northerners to give Buhari power and pple are foolish enough thinking their votes counted. As simple as anything, OBJ determined d outcome of our election with his rigging prowess, not even Tinubu.


Change they want, change they shall get.


They do not even consider their religious rltionship in dealing with them. Simply see them as fake Muslims.


Pls i want to know, pple from d sophisticated propaganda carriers, do their faithfuls squat to urinate like their folks up North ? Do they wash their heads,hands and feet like morrow no dey b4 it's night ? Do they normally go about with mat to lay their ground and start bowing like ehmm... ?



Waiting for SR,Punch, and co to go into what they are known for as Buhari's speech "i belong to everybody and belong to nobody" is making some sense to them now.


Comedians everywhere.



It will be shameful they told all lies to get wat they want and were later pushed aside. More like a prodigal tribe.

tinubu remain the leader of apc.... mr president let me remind u that u bought a form (27m) to apply and to run for presidential primary election which tinubu dubiously helped u to defeat kwankwaso, atiku, etc.... and eventually u won the general election.

When did he say this?