[b]Now to produce ministers, ambassadors[/b]THE power game between the political
structures in the All Progressives Congress
(APC) appears to have tilted in favour of the
state governors, following the changing
disposition of President Muhammadu Buhari
towards the state helmsmen.
Knowledgeable insiders in the APC told Sunday
Tribune that the governors appeared to have
won the heart of President Buhari lately and
that the president had conceded to them the
right to compile the list of prospective
ministers and other appointees.
President Buhari had initially rebuffed
attempts by the governors to make inputs into
his cabinet, as he told them at a meeting at the
Defence House that it was not their business to
name ministers for him since he would not also
suggest commissioners for them.
But recent rapport between the Presidency and
the governors is changing that fast, said an APC
insider last week.
The insider told Sunday Tribune that Buhari had
been told that the success or failure of the
administration depended largely on the
governors in the states and that he needed to
empower them as appropriate.
It was gathered that some senior members of
the party had subtly rubbed the message in at
some meetings with the president that he
could not be blindfolded to party survival and
that even if he was not interested in retaining
power for more than four years, he should still
help the party to retain power for as long as
possible.
A source said that the subtle advice was
responsible for a U-turn by the president on
the issue of bailout to the states and his
decision to travel with them on his recent trips
while sidelining members of the National
Assembly.
“The governors are winning. They have been
told they can make inputs to the cabinet and
they are actually preparing list of possible
ministers and ambassadorial nominees,” a
source said at the weekend.
The source also stated that the decision to carry
the party and the governors along in his
decisions was responsible for the president’s U-
turn on the issue of bailout to the states, as he
was told that many APC states were owing
salaries and that the PDP could easily capitalise
on that to blackmail the party out of power in
some of the states.
It was gathered that a sign of Buhari’s renewed
trust in the governors was also the decision to
ensure that the resolution of the crisis in the
National Assembly was handled by the
governors.
Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal,
resolved the crisis in the House of
Representatives, while the two-man committee
handling that of the Senate is made up of
Governors Adams Oshiomhole of Edo and Atiku
Bagudu of Kebbi State.
Sources in the party said that the decision to
play it cool with the governors was a carryover
of the practice under the administration of
former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who
initially battled the governors, using federal
lawmakers and ministers, but eventually
realised the strategic position of governors to
winning elections, which made him him to up
jettison the federal lawmakers .

Source: tribuneonlineng.com/power-game-how-apc-govs-hijacked-buhari

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