Fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) over the
chairmanship of the party’s Board of Trustees
(BoT).
It was learnt that a fresh crisis is rearing its
head in the party over who will chair the BoT.
The National Executive Committee (APC)
meeting held last Friday endorsed the
constitution of the party’s BoT. No date was set
for that.
An official of the party revealed to Sunday Sun
that some chieftains of the party are in the
trenches over who heads the yet-to-be-
constituted BoT.
According to him, the initial permutation was
that former vice president, Atiku Abubakar
would chair the advisory body. The move, he
said was championed by former Lagos state
governor and leader of the party, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu who wanted the former vice president
to support his candidates for the National
Assembly leadership.
However, the APC stalwart who does not want
his name mentioned said the music had since
changed. According to him, the emergence of
Saraki and Dogara as senate president and
House speaker and the role allegedly played by
Atiku in the controversial election had pitted
Tinubu against the former vice president.
His words, “we may be working towards
addressing the crisis in the National Assembly
but I’m saddened that we may court a new
crisis.
“Power struggle is going on over chairmanship
of our BoT. Initially Tinubu wanted the position
to go to North-east. In fact he lobbied Atiku for
it in exchange for his support for his candidates
in the National Assembly.
“When Asiwaju lost out in the National
Assembly, he changed his earlier stand that
Atiku should head the BoT. The reason is clear.
He was disappointed that Atiku was one of the
arrowheads that torpedoed all the plans made
by him.”
Right now, the APC chieftain claimed that
Tinubu’s henchmen were wholly against either
making Atiku the chairman of the body or
giving it to any person from the North-east. He
did not, however, state the zone or person the
ex-Lagos State governor was rooting for. He
only predicted that the fight over the office
would soon take a messy dimension.
“I will not be surprised if the struggle over the
position takes a larger-than-life dimension. I
think the matter will be decided by President
Buhari who is the leader of the party,” the
source said.
He said though some APC chieftains from the
South-west were rooting for Tinubu to run for
the position or nominate his ally from the zone
to contest for it, such proposal would not work.
According to him, the South had the position of
national chairman and could not be supported
to produce chairman of BoT.
He said, “the South is occupying the office of
national chairman , the BoT must go to the
North. It will be difficult to bring up any
argument that will change this equation.”
On the possibility of Atiku clinching the position
even in the face of opposition from Tinubu, the
APC official said the vice president enjoyed the
support of most governors from the North who
would nominate the BoT members.
He said, “the former vice president is playing
his politics very well at the moment. He has
the support of most Northern governors. You
and I know that these governors are the ones
who will nominate the BoT members again
tomorrow night. So I believe we are making
some progress, not that everything is signed,
sealed and delivered.”

Source:sunnewsonline.com/new/bot-chairmanship-atiku-tinubu-battle-for-apcs-soul/

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Politics on d go again

ibrams:
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Good morning oo introvert inspired.

How will atiku chair the BoT.

If they want BoT to go to the north, they should find committed person in old CPC or ANPP rather than PDP members that joined them.

biznus:
Good morning oo introvert inspired.

gud morning,u knw say she nah my wife nah,jst a husband and wife tin(i meant no harm ooo INTROVERT)

Atiku, teach him national politics.