Tinubu not genuinely interested in reconciling APC, he wants to take over the control of the party leadership by installing Bisi Akande as Caretaker Chairman ~APC NWC
Lagos – The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has worsened following allegation by a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu asked them to resign as a way of finding a lasting solution to the intractable crisis rocking the party.
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This followed on Thursday a scathing letter written by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, chairman of the party’s reconciliation committee, to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman, accusing him of sabotaging his efforts in reconciling aggrieved members of the party.
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The former Lagos State governor, whose relationship with Odigie-Oyegun has been on the downward trend since the conduct of the Ondo State governorship primary of the party in 2016, said rather than providing him the necessary support needed in his assignment, the party’s national chairman is undermining his presidential mandate by constituting himself as an obstacle towards the reconciliation process.
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He specifically mentioned Kogi, Kaduna, Kano, and Adamawa as the key states where Odigie-Oyegun is working to frustrate his efforts in reconciling aggrieved members of the party.
Tinubu, who copied the letter to the president, vice-president, Senate president and speaker of the House of Representatives, accused Odigie-Oyegun of contravening the spirit of the discussions both of them had at the party secretariat when President Muhammadu Buhari gave him the assignment of reconciling aggrieved members.
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In the letter, dated February 21, 2018, Tinubu said “disappointment greeted me when I discovered that you had swiftly acted in contravention of the spirit of our discussions. Instead of being a bulwark of support as promised, you positioned yourself in active opposition to the goal of resuscitating the progressive and democratic nature of APC”.
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Tinubu said while Odigie-Oyegun mentioned Kogi, Kaduna, Kano and Adamawa as places affected by serious party issues, he has taken it as his own personal ambition to thwart his presidential assignment in these key states.
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He accused the chairman of rushing to Kogi State to unilaterally inaugurate officials “parallel to the officials already heading the state chapter of the party”.
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“While this may place you in significant affinity with those parallel officials you handpicked, this machination suggests no improvement in the welfare of the party in Kogi or at the national level”.
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Tinubu said Odigie-Oyegun apparently seeks “to undermine my mandate by engaging in dilatory tactics for the most part. When forced to act, you do so in an arbitrary and capricious manner”.
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Speaking further, Tinubu said even if Odigie-Oyegun had personal qualms with him, it is his right as a human being but “you have no such right as the chairman of this party. The party belongs to all of its members”.
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While not turning down the assignment, he, however, warned Odigie-Oyegun to refrain from taking any more “improper unilateral decisions with regard to the national and state chapters of the party”.
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He reminded Odigie-Oyegun that the assignment was given to him by Buhari, stating that “in furtherance, I request that you make available to me the status reports and all the pertinent information regarding the state chapters without further delay”.
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Speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT on the genesis of the current crisis between the two party stalwarts, a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) said Tinubu during the closed door meeting he had with them during his visit to the party secretariat had asked them to resign as a way of finding a lasting solution to the intractable crisis rocking the party.
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“I am not surprised by the current letter written by Asiwaju Tinubu.
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During his visit to the party secretariat, he had asked us members of the NWC led by Chief Oyegun to resign but we told him that it is impossible since our tenure will end in June.
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“We later understood he wanted to install a Caretaker Committee to be headed by Chief Bisi Akande, thereby having his structures in charge of the party. That I can tell you is the genesis of the crisis”, he said.
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Tinubu, it would be recalled, had written Odigie-Oyegun in September 2016 asking him to resign as the party’s national chairman for allegedly derailing from the path of the progressives.
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He had accused Odigie-Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used was tampered with.
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Tinubu in the communiqué said that Odigie-Oyegun’s action in allegedly subverting the will of the people, was not of his doing, saying that for a man of the age of the national chairman to have done what he did that he must have been under the influence of a “powerful and sinister arm at work.
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“Evidently, some errant members believe promises and vows are mere words to be easily spoken and more easily broken.
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“Chairman John Oyegun has breached these good pledges in a most overt and brazen display,” Tinubu said. “In doing so, Odigie-Oyegun has dealt a heavy blow to the very party he professes to lead. It is an awful parent who suffocates his own child for the sake of a few naira.”
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However in his response, Odigie-Oyegun said as the party’s national chairman, he cannot be sacked on the pages of newspapers.
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DAILY INDEPENDENT in a report three weeks ago titled ‘Tinubu Faces Hurdles To Reconcile Aggrieved APC Members’ had said as someone who is deeply involved in some of events that are causing crisis in the party, it remains to be seen how Tinubu as head of the reconciliation panel will initiate the peace moves between him and some key leaders of the party which include President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President Bukola Saraki and Chief John Odigie- Oyegun.
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According to inside sources in the APC, the biggest conflict in the ruling party is between Tinubu and Saraki. Both men have been at loggerheads since June 2015 when Saraki against all odds defied the directives of the party and connived with senators from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to become the Senate president.
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His action was seen by many as a direct affront to Tinubu who wanted to install Senator Ahmad Lawan as the number three man. Since his emergence, Saraki has been going in and out of the courts on allegation of corruption which many of his supporters believe Tinubu is responsible for. Both men hardly see eye-to-eye and stakeholders are waiting to see how the reconciliation between the two plays out.
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Speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT , a member of the party’s National Working Committee said the major hurdle before Tinubu is reconciling with Saraki, adding that this will go a long way in fast-tracking the healing process the party seriously craves for.
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“To me, the major hurdle before Asiwaju Tinubu is how he will reconcile with Saraki. It is a tough task because given Tinubu’s influence, we are all wondering if he will be humble enough to go to Saraki and seek a truce. It is a herculean task but we believe nothing is impossible”, he said.

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We hope they'll keep their differences aside and settle so as to work hand in hand in seeing the re-election of our God-sent Messiah- President Buhari

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They should rather fight to death.

Bloody capitalists.

It's not fair how Tinubu is bullying Oyegun.
Some of us criticized Dino Melaye when he was bullying Tinubu.

Now Jagaban is doing the same.

God would send the spirit of confusion into the camp of enemies of Nigeria....and they shall kill themselves.

Who is Tinubu to under-rate Oyegun?
Who is Oyegun to dare Tinubu...?

Oya fight! !

who the hell is tinubu by the way

NwaAmaikpe:


It's not fair how Tinubu is bullying Oyegun. Some of us criticized Dino Melaye when he was bullying Tinubu.
Now Jagaban is doing the same.

guy shut ur senile mouth

oyien Ra

things fall apart..by 2019, apcheat will be history

rxmusa:
We hope they'll keep their differences aside and settle so as to work hand in hand in seeing the re-election of our God-sent Messiah- President Buhari

can a lion and an hyna stay in the same house??..tinubu is wasting his time.. defeating buhari in 2019 is the tax that we must all do..by then, tinubu wont know wat hit him

PMB will not run for president but if he does tinubu and oyegun will help him to go back to daura with first flight

But oyegun has been destroying APC sees 1911

So Tinubu has jumped from being an "errand boy" and the "iddiot of pepper soup joint" to taking over the party now now? When I told una say eni duro wotan, you said the man is being used and dumped. Oya enjoy the show, o nbo ni, ko i de!

Make I double post fast before they delete my comment.

What if Tinubu himself is working to make sure Buhari is not reelected? What if he's trying to get back at Buhari over being "trashed" and that can only be done from within after taking down some other people who think they know too much? At this point, only Tinubu knows who he's working for, we can only speculate.

unohbethel:
can a lion and an hyna stay in the same house??..tinubu is wasting his time.. defeating buhari in 2019 is the tax that we must all do..by then, tinubu wont know wat hit him

ycat:
What if Tinubu himself is working to make sure Buhari is not reelected? What if he's trying to get back at Buhari over being "trashed" and that can only be done from within after taking down some other people who think they know too much? At this point, only Tinubu knows who he's working for, we can only speculate.

ok 2019 will answer then

Even before then.

unohbethel:
ok 2019 will answer then