Mai Mala Buni, governor of Yobe state and now-ousted chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker committee, took steps to scuttle the party’s national convention scheduled for March 26, TheCable can report.

Amid the crisis in the ruling party over the national convention, Buni had held on tightly to the position of APC chairman.

TheCable had reported that his desire to stay in office nearly jeopardised plans for the national convention.

The Yobe governor has been feet-dragging on preparations and issues bordering on the convention.

Unknown to members of the party, Buni and John Akpanudoedehe, national secretary of the APC caretaker committee, had hatched a plot to hold on to the control of the party.

TheCable understands that they used a third party to obtain a court order temporarily restraining the ruling party from holding its convention until a substantive suit has been heard and determined.

The suit, filed by one Salisu Umoru at the high court in the federal capital territory (FCT), had the APC and Buni as respondents.

“That the 1st Defendant/Respondent can only conduct its national convention after the hearing and determination of the substantive suit pending before this honourable court,” the court order seen by TheCable reads.

“That in the interest of justice accelerated hearing of the substantive suit is hereby ordered.

“That this matter is hereby adjourned to the 10th day of January 2022 for hearing of the substantive suit at High Court No. 15, Kubwa, FCT-Abuja.”


BUHARI ASKS NIGER GOVERNOR TO REPLACE BUNI

TheCable understands that after learning of Buni’s ploy and the court order, President Muhammadu Buhari directed Abubakar Sani Bello, governor of Niger, to replace the Yobe governor who is currently on a medical trip in Dubai.

A highly-placed source disclosed that the president got to know about the court order a week ago.

“The president asked the Niger governor to replace Buni when he became aware of the document,” the source said.

“Buni and Akpanudoedehe who is the national secretary will have to vacate their offices immediately.”

Speaking with reporters at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, Bello said he has been acting as the party’s chairman “for a while.”


BUNI OUT IN THE COLD?

TheCable understands that Buhari’s decision on Buni has set off a chain reaction resulting in the isolation of the Yobe state governor by his formerly-sympathetic colleagues.

Muhammad Badaru, Jigawa governor; Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna governor; Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi governor; and Yahaya Bello, Kogi governor, are believed to have turned their backs on Buni, another source said.

“Buni does not have anybody to speak for him now. The APC governors who supported him have taken sides with Mr President,” the source added.

Muhammad Badaru, Jigawa governor; Nasir el-Rufai, Kaduna governor; Atiku Bagudu, Kebbi governor; and Yahaya Bello, Kogi governor, are believed to have turned their backs on Buni, another source said.

“Buni does not have anybody to speak for him now. The APC governors who supported him have taken sides with Mr President,” the source added.

Frigga13:
I don’t understand all this .. Apc different narratives from different sources with no name ..

Why is Baguda not talking .. Badaru.. and even the presidency as the leader of the party.

Not even a Governor .. nothing authentic.. everyone trying to hide identity

Bello said he’s acting .. yet new coming said he replaced Buni

How ?

We talking political party in power not some corporation or company

Which ever way..

Apc is evil and what’s ever coming is good for the Nigerians

The demonic blood sucking power is crashing .. Nigerians will bury it ashes and move on for good

Power to the people !

FreeStuffsNG:
His plan to scuttle the national convention was audible to the deaf and visible to the blind.
Prof Sagay was brutally frank in his submission and vow that HE Buni will not oversee the Presidential primaries.
I think the main beneciciary of his sack are the people of Yobe.

Racoon:
The intrigues of the power game are not always unusual but the template the ruling government have set is a bad one that will forever hunt whosoever that is involved in it.

The single handed dissolving of the former NWC of the party by the president regardless the multiple litigations threatening its survival is an illegality itself.

Then comes the illegality of appointing governors against the exitant provision of the Nigerian constitution as caretaker chairmen of a political party have introduced another dangerous illegality into the polity.

Then, it became a more desperate power tussle among the multiple power brokers in the party including the abuse of court & democratic processes because it is believed that whosoever holds the ace calls the shots. Now this is where it has landed them. You can't never use illegality to justify legality.

seunmsg:


Buni the butterfly that thought himself a bird. Now that he has been put in his place, his friends have abandoned him. Such is life in politics. Today, you’re high up there with so many friends around telling you how super you are and tomorrow, you’re at the cold bottom with all your friends gone.

The chairmanship position of a ruling party comes with a banana peel that requires tact, wisdom, diplomacy and a deep sense of where the occupant is coming from to avoid the fall. Buni obviously didn’t learn from the experience of those before him.

FreeStuffsNG:
His plan to scuttle the national convention was audible to the deaf and visible to the blind.

Prof Sagay was brutally frank in his submission and vow that HE Buni will not oversee the Presidential primaries.

I think the main beneficiary of his sack are the people of Yobe. They can now have the Governor they originally elected to serve them spend more time in Damaturu in his last days in office.
Sincerely, many will agree with Prof Sagay that HE Buni behaved irresponsibly and deserved to be sent packing.

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Frigga13:
I don’t understand all this .. Apc different narratives from different sources with no name ..

Why is Baguda not talking .. Badaru.. and even the presidency as the leader of the party.

Not even a Governor .. nothing authentic.. everyone trying to hide identity

Bello said he’s acting .. yet new coming said he replaced Buni

How ?

We talking political party in power not some corporation or company

Which ever way..

Apc is evil and what’s ever coming is good for the Nigerians

The demonic blood sucking power is crashing .. Nigerians will bury it ashes and move on for good

Power to the people !

adolfHitler1934:
I foresee that you will drink snipper and kill yourself if Tinubu doesn't win ordinary APC primaries. Take it easy o.

So you reported me in the other thread where you were talking gibberish and that your biased Mode banned my account abi. You people cannot shut us up here for saying the truth.
If you like call them to ban this account too.

Ndi Uchu'