*NWC Needs Not Resign For Tinubu To Do His Job — Tony Momoh
*They Either Resign Or Not Interfere In His Assignment – Sagay


Temidayo Akinsuyi and Ojo Oyewamide

As the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are locked in a battle of wits over the ongoing reconciliation of aggrieved party members, indications emerged at the weekend that majority of party members are divided over the request of the former Lagos State governor that the John Odigie-Oyegun led executive must vacate office to allow him do the job assigned him by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The president had on February 6 appointed Tinubu to lead an APC consultation, reconciliation and confidence building team toward improving cohesion in the party ahead of the general election in 2019.

However, Tinubu, in a letter of complaint to Odigie-Oyegun, and copied President Buhari accused the party chairman of sabotaging his reconciliation efforts.

The letter, entitled, ‘Actions and conduct weakening the party from within’, was also copied Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; Senate President Bukola Saraki and House of Representatives Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

Odigie-Oyegun, who later met President Buhari in a closed-door meeting, said he will continue to give Tinubu all the needed support in his assignment.

A source in the party, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the feeling of some members of the party is that while Tinubu should be given all he requires to carry out his assignment successfully, he should not take undue advantage of the situation to get even with Odigie-Oyegun and other exco members.

“I can tell you that there is division within the APC camp over Tinubu’s request that the Oyegun-led exco must vacate office in place of a caretaker committee. Many of our members believe the reconciliation team should be given free hand to carry out its task without inhibition especially given the fact that the election is just around the corner.

“Though we are not sure of what transpired between Oyegun and the president last week, we believe President Buhari should consider the interest of the party first and not allow some few individuals constitute an impediment to the peace building process.

“However, there are others who believe that Tinubu is trying to take advantage of the opportunity given him to punish Oyegun who he has been having a running battle with. These ones believe that he can carry out the assignment without asking the NWC to resign”, he said.

Also speaking with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), said the Oyegun-led exco should either resign or refrain from interfering in Tinubu’s assignment like they are currently doing as stated in Tinubu’s letter.

“Yes, I think they rather resign or if they will remain in office, they should not just interfere in what he is doing and give him a free hand in carrying out his responsibility. There is no doubt that the National Working Committee of APC will need very, very drastic changes for the party to win the 2019 election. They will need a very dynamic and different purposeful leaders if they will make an impact on both the party and the country”, Sagay said.

However, Prince Tony Momoh, a national leader of APC, said Oyegun and his exco need not resign for Tinubu to do his job.

He added that Tinubu never insisted that he cannot do the job until the NWC quit office.

“Tinubu never said he won’t carry out the reconciliation tasks until Oyegun and other members of the NWC resign. The constitution provides for who becomes a member of the NWC and then provides for exit from office. So, if they are going to leave, it will be through due process.

“Tinubu never said members of the NWC must resign before he does his job. He went to the party secretariat, they held a meeting and they all decided to work together.

“Where did the people get this impression that unless they resign, Tinubu cannot succeed in his task? To me, resigning or no resigning is not a condition for doing the work of reconciliation”, he said.

DAILY INDEPENDENT had last week reported that the genesis of the current crisis between the two party stalwarts was a result of a request by Tinubu that the NWC vacates office and allow the setting up of a national caretaker committee which will be headed by Chief Bisi Akande, Tinubu’s ally and former interim national chairman of the APC.

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.

“I am not surprised by the current letter written by Asiwaju Tinubu. 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 is impossible since our tenure will end in June.

“We later understood he wanted to install a caretaker committee 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.

Read more https://independent.ng/apc-divided-tinubus-demand-oyegun-nwc-exit/

Yoruba demons on the beat

juanjo2:
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Haba kai

Na for Oyegun body jagaban wan show muscle, see de use and troway old man, after buhari and cabals don trash u for wastebasket

apc should do away with all dis crap..
else pdp will take advantage of the situation. ...

Tinubu trying so hard to put the APC back into his kitty. He doesn't know even the dullard and his men don't trust him to allow that move!

Guess he skipped history lessons cos history always finds a way to repeat itself.

Now with these whole happenings, wouldn't it be safe and fair to say Tinubu has been demystified? Wouldn't it be fair to say Tinubu only knows south west politics and he was over rated in 2015? Wouldn't it be fair to say he only gained traction in 2015 due to the series of events that played out then and a very powerful and mostly biased media backing him? I think I would be right in the assertions above!

Tinubu should stick to local politics... National politics ain't his thing (he already helped enthrone a failure and now keeping the failing dullard on the Rock is the only thing still keeping him politically relevant). Then, He should also quit whining around like a Lil Bia.tch; power is taken not given so he shouldn't ever think Oyegun and his goons are just gonna roll over and hand him power and their structures just because he's called jagajaga jagaban. He has been trashed and he should take his thrashing in good fate

This is nigeria were politics is the winners take it all, politics of bitterness and revenge

fulani man wey dull

lawalosky:
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today is Monday, too early for this biko

I see this as the beginning of the end for the APC...all this in house fighting prior to their convention still ahead in October is a clear sign that things are not well with the party..

nero2face:
today is Monday, too early for this biko

jelousy.. wot is good about the monday?

Thy should do there whala nd give pdp chance

That's jagaban, the thoroughly trashed jagaban

Looks like tinubu is trying to regain control of the party

Battle of wits and old men rattle

One doesn't want to lose relevance and the other wants a leach over his once owned pet.

Tinubu must continue to pour water in that basket until it is full.

Just division? Abeg make una start killing each other insha allah

I think the biggest mistake buhari made was to used Tinubu and dump him and now you go back to him to reconcile aggrive members.... Tinubu will not only reconcile then back but he would have gain their trust, knows their strength and also their weaknesses qnd if buhari decide to stop tinubu from reconciling it's means APC is dead already just awaiting burial..... This season Movie will be interesting...

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APC (from Buhari to the least person) need a training course from KPMG or Accenture on Leadership Qualities. They are more clueless than GEJ.

Na them go take their hand scatter their APC wetin concern me self

Why would leece loose for home eeh. My one million naira cheiii

Sagay wants to gain popularity by all means

Waitin concern me?

Useless reaction.

How does this reduce the cost of Garri?

APC for gutter

Recycled fraudsters

lawalosky:
apc should do away with all dis crap..
else pdp will take advantage of the situation. ...

do you mean Nigerians should do away with all of them?