Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are working round the clock towards ensuring that Senate President Bukola Saraki; Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State; Rabiu Kwankwaso, senator representing Kano Central, their loyalists and other bigwigs of the ruling party do not decamp to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

According to party sources, this necessitated the setting up of the APC Reconciliation Committee by President Buhari.

With dwindling goodwill from the six geo-political zones of the country, if President Buhari is seeking reelection in 2019 he must arrest the drift of many chieftains of the party who are being wooed by the opposition parties, especially the PDP, analysts said.

In a chat with DAILY INDEPENDENT on Wednesday, a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) said the president decided to act fast to forestall a mass defection to the major opposition party by setting up the reconciliation committee headed by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the party and former governor of Lagos State.

Given the influence of Saraki at the National Assembly and in Kwara State and also considering Kwankwaso’s influence in Kano, our source said “the president and the party feel there is an urgent need to move in and pacify the aggrieved members from leaving the party either for the PDP or the various coalitions springing up in the country.”

He cited a recent poll by an online news medium where many respondents voted that both Saraki and Kwankwaso are on their way out of the APC.

Our source said “after considering this report and the body languages of the aforementioned politicians, the president and his team felt there is a need to meet with aggrieved politicians, iron things out and bring them to the level they were before the 2015 presidential election”.

“Already the opposition is latching on to the face-off between Kwankwaso and Ganduje in Kano and daily they are telling the senator that he should dump the APC and return to the PDP. They keep telling him the APC is an ungrateful party that didn’t appreciate the massive votes he delivered in the 2015 election. We know all these and even though Kwankwaso himself has denied plans to join the PDP, we do not want to take things for granted.

“On the part of the Senate president, we are also aware that a lot of people are trying to drag him away from the APC. First, is his original party, the PDP. They have been on his neck since his ordeal began following his emergence in 2015. They later intensified their efforts after the Supreme Court judgment that settled the two years crisis within their party and they became emboldened that Saraki will join them after their national convention in December.

“While we believe the Senate president who has repeatedly said he will not dump the APC, we are, however, surprised reading the comment of one of his men, that is Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara, who recently said they are ready to join the PDP once the people of the state give them the go-ahead.

“To us in the APC, we believe it is a clear signal that all the rumours about Saraki and his supporters rejoining the PDP may be real after all. Also, if you consider the protest by the youths and leaders of Kwara PDP that Saraki may hijack the party’s structures if he returns, then you will know that the plot is real and that is why the president and the party leadership decided to act fast by setting up the reconciliation committee. We believe all will be fine at the end of the day”.



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Everything that this old man prioritizes is politics towards 2019. If he could put same efforts in combating herdsmen, fuel scarcity, insecurity, dwindling economy and so on.

It still will not stop you being kicked back to Daura in 2019

Buhari still heading to Daura...

if Ortom remains in APC, he is on his own. The good people of benue have decided.

I'm not happy with Asiwaju, I wouldn't know why he accepted this irresponsible task of reconciling members of the APC, where as most of the in fighting was caused by Buhari and his Fulani mafias.

hmmm

No politician is thinking about development anymore, all they now sleep, eat and dream of is 2019 elections.

Any party that wants to lose the governorship election in Benue state should simply field Ortom as their candidate. It would be a walkover for anyone else.

The herdsmen issue he's using to launder his image isn't gonna save him when the time comes.

As we speak, state workers are planning a total shut down of the state over salary crisis. Salaries are not being paid and no projects are ongoing. Benue state work force is predominantly civil servants. When you toy with payment of salaries as a governor, you you with your political future. Suswam learnt this the hard way even as an incumbent and Ortom seems to be towing the same path.

APC should be tinkering with Jime instead of wasting their time trying to prop Ortom up. He's a bad product and hugely unselleable.

omenkaLives:
Any party that wants to lose the governorship election in Benue state should simply field Ortom as their candidate. It would be a walkover for anyone else.

The herdsmen issue he's using to launder his image isn't gonna save him when the time comes.

As we speak, state workers are planning a total shut down of the state over salary crisis. Salaries are not being paid and no projects are ongoing. Benue state work force is predominantly civil servants. When you toy with payment of salaries as a governor, you you with your political future. Suswam learnt this the hard way even as an incumbent and Ortom seems to be towing the same path.

APC should be tinkering with Gime instead of wasting their time trying to prop Ortom up. He's a bad product and hugely unselleable.

ortom think he will use fulani crisis and fool benue people to re-elect him.

omenkaLives:
Any party that wants to lose the governorship election in Benue state should simply field Ortom as their candidate. It would be a walkover for anyone else.

The herdsmen issue he's using to launder his image isn't gonna save him when the time comes.

As we speak, state workers are planning a total shut down of the state over salary crisis. Salaries are not being paid and no projects are ongoing. Benue state work force is predominantly civil servants. When you toy with payment of salaries as a governor, you you with your political future. Suswam learnt this the hard way even as an incumbent and Ortom seems to be towing the same path.

APC should be tinkering with Jime instead of wasting their time trying to prop Ortom up. He's a bad product and hugely unselleable.

OMENKATA BAWO NI I HOPE SAY YOU DON COLLECT FEBRUARY SALARY

Fmartin:
ortom think he will use fulani crisis and fool benue people to re-elect him.

He's fooling no one but himself.

Imagine the criminal claiming they spent 250million on the mass burial!!

Ortom is going down, that fate is already signed and sealed.

Lol APC gasping for breathe already ...

..but to be honest,Nigerian politicians are the worst in the World...tufia!

Let them go jor...

I laugh in Japanese Yen...

peeps4u:
Everything that this old man prioritizes is politics towards 2019. If he could put same efforts in combating herdsmen, fuel scarcity, insecurity, dwindling economy and so on.

The dullard is power drunk... not interested in any meaningful development. Shame to the CHANGE.

omenkaLives:
He's fooling no one but himself.

Imagine the criminal claiming they spent 250million on the mass burial!!

Ortom is going down, that fate is already signed and sealed.

at last the PPR was right sha.. a drowning man always struggle to hook his hand on anything he finds within his reach. 2019 will be intersesting

Now they're valuable politicians usable to deceive electorates, and dumpable after 2019.

peeps4u:
Everything that this old man prioritizes is politics towards 2019. If he could put same efforts in combating herdsmen, fuel scarcity, insecurity, dwindling economy and so on.

Ortom can't and won't decamp to PDP, as long as Akume is still in APC.

Wild goose chase.

omenkaLives:
Any party that wants to lose the governorship election in Benue state should simply field Ortom as their candidate. It would be a walkover for anyone else.

The herdsmen issue he's using to launder his image isn't gonna save him when the time comes.

As we speak, state workers are planning a total shut down of the state over salary crisis. Salaries are not being paid and no projects are ongoing. Benue state work force is predominantly civil servants. When you toy with payment of salaries as a governor, you you with your political future. Suswam learnt this the hard way even as an incumbent and Ortom seems to be towing the same path.

APC should be tinkering with Jime instead of wasting their time trying to prop Ortom up. He's a bad product and hugely unselleable.

The thing is that Ortom wont decamp, fact.
with Akume his backbone still in APC. and know this APC will still win benue, no opposition in benue.

Kyase:
The thing is that Ortom wont decamp, fact.
with Akume his backbone still in APC. and know this APC will still win benue, no opposition in benue.

Trust me, opposition or not, I wouldn't hesitate to vote a candidate in PDP if APC fields Ortom.

He's the worst thing that's ever happened to the state. Benue people would be his opponents /opposition.

It is not about Ortom. It is the people of Benue. I dont think they want to hear anything APC again

omenkaLives:
Trust me, opposition or not, I wouldn't hesitate to vote a candidate in PDP if APC fields Ortom.

He's the worst thing that's ever happened to the state. Benue people would be his opponents /opposition.

Ortom in one way or the other has won over some votes in Benue, trust me I don't like the nigga, but I don't see anybody winning him. all the big wings in benue all behind him, I don't see him losing, unless through primaries.

I rejected his ring on Val’s day being yesterday because he proposed to me on the mainland instead of the island. I live on the island and I know how much I make too , why will he drive me to the mainland to insult me?, I felt really bad . I don’t know his reasons but it was not funny at all and not memorable.
Nairalanders my worries now is that he has not called since yesterday.
Does it mean that he does not love me ? Or was he joking about the proposal?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfO_JGtlFA-/?taken-by=break_or_makeup

APC is a failure. Buhari should stop wasting our money on his personal ambition.

We don tire to hear news like this when will Nigeria move forward?