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Tension In APC As Governors Plot To Oppose Buhari’s Choice
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Uneasy calm has pervaded the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the consensus option presented by President Muhammadu Buhari before governors on the party’s platform ahead of the party’s presidential primary slated for next Monday.

LEADERSHIP gathered yesterday that some of the governors are strongly opposed to the idea of the president picking his successor singlehandedly, insisting that one of them, preferably a northern governor, should succeed Buhari.

This is even as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo yesterday met with APC national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and five governors of the party at the presidential villa.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the meeting may not be unconnected with the presidential primary of the party slated for next Monday.



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President Buhari had met with the governors on Tuesday before travelling to Spain.

Buhari who has been in Spain on a state visit at the invitation of that country’s president, Pedro Sanchez, the first by the Nigerian leader, is billed to return this weekend.

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The president is also expected to meet with the APC governors tomorrow to arrive at a consensus for the presidential primary.

It was gathered that the governors had splintered into smaller groups and have been meeting in what seemed to be last minute consultations and horse trading to arrive at a position ahead of President Buhari’s arrival from Spain.

A reliable source told our correspondent last night that the APC governors were to meet under the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) platform, but could not meet “probably because they are still consulting.

“It is not unusual that the governors are consulting, especially when the president has told them what he wants and threw it back at them to return the same gesture of allowing him choose his successor the way they did in their respective states. There may be disagreement here and there, especially when it has to taking a major decision, but I believe they would come out strong with one voice,” the source close to one of the governor said in confidence.

The governors opposed to the president’s consensus option who are said to have the support of some northern power brokers are worried that the governing APC might lose at the presidential poll if the selection of its presidential flag bearer is not done in a transparent manner the way it was witnessed in the presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).

“They also faulted moves by Buhari to limit his search for a successor to the North, with only the President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan and Governor Yahaya Bello from the North-East and North-Central respectively. They wanted the party to allow more fresh aspirants to participate in the presidential primaries of the party” another source close to the PGF said.

On the other hand, southern presidential aspirants have rejected moves by the northern governors to reopen nomination after screening has been done, saying it may deepen the split in the ranks of the APC governors.

Our source further said, “As the President intensifies consultations on his successor, he has an uphill task ahead. Some of the APC governors, especially those on second term, do not subscribe to the imposition of APC presidential candidate.

“They are forming a group to advise the President to drop the idea because it will erode voters’ confidence in APC and its anointed candidate.

“They also claimed that APC will be setting a bad precedent for the nation’s democracy. Their greatest challenge is how to convince Buhari to buy in their view.”

Some of the governors are also said to be wooing the national chairman of the APC, Adamu, to reopen nomination for presidential primaries.

“Some of these governors have also been privy to the fact that Buhari might have zeroed in on two or three candidates , including a few Northern aspirants that they don’t want adopted.

“I think there must be more to this reopening of nomination agenda. We don’t know the mindset of our national chairman on this,” our source hinted.



Southern Governors Insist On Power Shift

Meanwhile, governors from the southern part of the country have charged the party to work hard to retain power by rotating the presidency to the southern part of the country.

Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Ondo State governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, stated the position of the southern governors in a short message via his personal Facebook page yesterday.

Akeredolu who was on Wednesday evening named the chairman of Security and Compliance for the party’s special convention re-echoed the position of his colleagues in the Southern Nigeria Governors’ Forum that power should be rotated to the South.

Governor Akeredolu noted that the APC must be ready to rotate power in order to retain power, adding that to retain power, the party must rotate to the South.

“APC must work to retain power. We must rotate power to retain power !!! Rotate to the South. Shikena,” the message reads.



It’s My turn, I’m Tired Of Sponsoring Political Sons – Tinubu

Meanwhile, national leader and frontline presidential aspirant under the platform of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday admonished party delegates from Ogun State against turning the forthcoming national convention of the party to a “family affair” while voting to pick the flag bearer of the party for the 2023 presidential election.

Tinubu who addressed party delegates in Abeokuta, the state capital, emphatically warned the delegates not to sacrifice sound judgment at the altar of family affair when voting at the party’s convention, stressing that it was time for him to reap the benefits of his own labour and sacrifices at building a formidable political party.

Going down memory lane, Tinubu who also met with the national delegates of the party from Oyo State said that he never regretted sacrificing the opportunity offered him to become a vice to President Buhari during the build up to the year 2015 presidential election, but declined the offer to enable him stabilise APC, particularly towards ensuring that the newcomers from the PDP were fully accommodated within the APC.

He said, “It is now over 25 years that I have been worshipping these political sons and daughters. If Governor Dapo Abiodun seated here will be faithful to his God, I want to emphatically state that he couldn’t have become the governor without me. Even President Buhari wouldn’t have won that presidential election in 2015 after three unsuccessful attempts without my support.

“Since President Buhari assumed office, I have not accepted any ministerial or Ambassadorial position. But now, it is my turn. My protection for these political sons and daughters is enough. I don’t want to be part of a sad political history in Nigeria. I am here to solicit for your votes. May God not turn you from being delegates to delicate. Don’t make it a family affair.

“What I am telling you now is between me and God Almighty. Prior to the 2015 general elections, Buhari called me to be his Vice President. He said because the first time he contested, he picked Chuba Okadigbo, a flamboyant politician, a Catholic, but Nigerians didn’t vote for him. The second time, he picked another Igbo, Umeh Ezeoke, Nigerians didn’t vote for him, that if he goes to bring the Pope to run as his vice, Nigerians won’t vote for him, but you, Bola Tinubu, you have six governors, you have never lost an election before, come and be my vice.

“He knew all the calculations then favoured us, that is why he wanted me as his vice, but I told him to let us build the party first. And when we finished building the party, after we brought in people from the PDP, Saraki now saw those from the PDP will not get anything if Buhari; a Muslim becomes the President and me, also a Muslim becomes his vice, he won’t get the Senate President because the Senate President cannot also be a Muslim, that was how they started the campaign of calumny against me.

“And I told them that I have a candidate that is a Christian that I can nominate, so that the party will not break, that was how I nominated Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. I surrendered my right to him (Osinbajo).

“I was asked to submit three names, Yemi Cardozo, Wale Edun and Yemi Osinbajo, but I told them if I submit three names, they will believe that I am not consistent and I insisted that I will present one candidate and I presented Yemi Osinbajo’s name.

“It is my time, I’m educated, I’m experienced. I have been serving you for a long time, bring me the presidency, it is my turn”.

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Tinubu further recalled that when former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was being flogged out of PDP by former President Okusegun Obasanjo, he ran to him for help and he left the ticket for him.

Noting that former EFCC chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, had also come to him and he backed him, Tinubu said, “It has been over 25 years now that I have been serving them. This one sitting behind me, Dapo, can he say he can be the Governor without me? We were together at the MKO Abiola Stadium, he was intimidated, they didn’t want to give him the party’s flag, I was the one that handed the flag to him. He knows that he cannot be the governor without the help of God and my support.

“If not for me that stood behind Buhari, he wouldn’t have become the president. He tried the first time, he failed, the second time, he failed, the third time, he failed, he even wept on a national television and vowed never to contest again, but I went to meet him in Kaduna and told him he will run again, I will stand by you and you will win, but you must not joke with Yorubas and he agreed.

“Since he became the president, I have never got ministerial slots, I didn’t collect any contract, I have never begged for anything from him. It is the turn of Yoruba to produce a President. It is my turn”.



Lawan Appoints Orji Kalu As Campaign DG, Fani-Kayode, Others As Members

Meanwhile, Senate president and APC presidential aspirant, Ahmad Lawan, has appointed the chief whip of the Senate and Abia North Senator, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, as the director-general of the Ahmad Lawan Central Campaign Organisation.

At a meeting held in Abuja yesterday, members and chairman of eight sub-committees of the campaign organisation were equally announced.

LEADERSHIP learnt that the team met behind closed-doors to fine-tune strategies and consolidate on the gains made so far.

Lawan’s campaign team led by Kalu is expected to strengthen the campaign organisation and build a stronger cohesion that would deliver the APC presidential ticket to the Senate President during the forthcoming presidential primaries and ultimately lead him to victory in the general election in 2023.

A former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, was appointed as deputy chairman of the campaign’s Media and Publicity committee headed by Niger North Senator, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi.

LEADERSHIP recalls that before now, Fani-Kayode was the deputy chairman the of Yahaya Bello campaign organisation.

Others include the Finance and Budget Committee to be chaired by Auwal Lawan and Senator Sani Musa as co-chairman.

Senator Ikechukwu Obiora is chairman of Strategy and Planning Committee with Senator Betty Apiafi as deputy chairman; Contact and Mobilization is to be led by Kano North Senator, Barau Jibrin, as chairman, and Delta Senator, Peter Nwaoboshi, is the deputy chairman.

The Security and Intelligence committee is led by a former director-general of DSS, Mallam Lawal Daura, while Commodore Mohammed Barau (rtrd) is the deputy chairman.

Others are Transport and Logistics committee to be chaired by Katsina South Senator, Bello Mandiya, and Hon. Hillary Bisong as deputy chairman.

Prince Mustapha Audu is to lead the Youth Groups, while Women Groups will be chaired Hon. Aisha Ismail.



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fergie001:
Target for a man in Spain whilst Femi is in Abuja. APC is using indirect, even Lagos used Indirect method, how many people contested?

Did Buhari impose Adamu as APC Chair? Calm down....

Femi Adesina is in spain with buhari.


I can now tell who your preferred candidate is. Finally! I can see the passion now.

fergie001:
Target for a man in Spain whilst Femi is in Abuja. APC is using indirect, even Lagos used Indirect method, how many people contested?

Did Buhari impose Adamu as APC Chair? Calm down....

Femi Adesina is actually with the president in spain.

You can't find Osinbajo anywhere yet he wants to reap where he didn't sow.
A labourer is worthy of his wages even God himself acknowledged that.

All those who claimed they couldn't hear Tinubu when he was lecturing them at the screening panel eventually heard him loud and clear yesterday. Didn't I tell you Jagaban is very audible? Hahahahahahahaha....shots fired and targets hit.

Fergie001 what's your take on this clarification from the president's spokesman?


Don't you think the shots fired yesterday have hit target? Lol....

PrinceOfLagos:
Whatever man

Mi o raye fun oshi

Rieghemen mhan

Mooh247:
Make them no do Jagaban coup oo. Because even Katsina Guber Aspirants that emerge Na Tinubu person him be while Buhari's nephew lost House of representatives ticket

E dey red for Buhari men everywhere and they fit do Tinubu final damage

Dem nor know politics. Tinubu is teaching them new things

Mooh247:
Your guess is as good as mine.. but let me give you a clue

Buhari's nephew lost in Katsina

Buhari's PA lost in Kano

All winners of APC Senatorial ticket in Ogun are SWAGA members

Malami couldn't contest because he knows his fate


.

Opor...... Lol

Mooh247

Table shaking is paying off. That's politics for you. If you keep quiet you're a neophyte in the game.

Buhariiswicked:
https://www./2022/06/03/succession-presidency-reacts-to-buharis-meeting-with-apc-governors/

He wrote: “No word about zoning, consensus, or imposition of candidate. He just charged them to let their plans converge, so that the party would put its best foot forward. Shortly after the meeting, we headed for the airport.




Reacting to the development, Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina said the President did not mention consensus or imposition of a presidential candidate on APC during the meeting with the governors.



These highlights are enough for me. Maybe the shots fired yesterday by the dogged JAGABAN is beginning to yield results. Hahahahahahahaha....... everybody get ready for celebration of democracy at the eagles square on Monday.


PrinceofLagos,truthisunique2, penguin2, madamVanessa food is ready.

Mooh247:
APC has only one headache and that's how to jettison primaries without lawsuits

Lol....why are they scared of primaries?

Mooh247:



Tinubu never single handedly created APC, ACN with 5 Governors, joined CPC with 1 and APGA 1, nPDP one to form APC


However during 2014 Lagos APC Presidential Primaries Tinubu backed Buhari dollar for dollar to defeat Atiku, Kalu, Kwankwaso and Okorocha

Tinubu provided the private jet for campaign, he funded their trips and paid for the adverts

Even through out Buhari's stay in Lagos Eko Hotel suite bills was footed by Tinubu and Buhari only eat at Tinubu's house fearing poison from PDP




.

Thank you

Upworkwriter007:
Most pple above and below me are just being emotional with the truth.
Whatever he does, APC will lose the election. He's the political brainbox of that party. Osinbajo cannot defeat Atiku in the North. He doesn't have the political alliance to make that happen. BTW, Tinubu has shown that he's ready to destroy it all if he doesn't get the ticket. I think Atiku should get set, and be ready to make concessions to absorb Tinubu boys. It'll be a mega victory for PDP. Peter Obi's labor party can also benefit. It's a major realliance we're seeing happening in the political space. 2023 will be mega. Whatever happens, i just hope Nigerians benefit most from it.

You get brain. It's hard to see brains like this here. Nairaland is populated by brainless clowns.

Definition of failure.

Mooh247:
Omo with a free and fair primaries no shaking but Na Nigeria we dey nothing is guranteed

Men full ground to checkmate the process. No fear for dat one. Let Buhari make his choice and bring him to the field for primary.

Headlines: How Tinubu defeated Buhari.

PrinceOfLagos:
Seeing Tinubu slaves frustrated makes me happy yeah yeah

Just bounce!
No time for a notorious shameless clown like you.

PrinceOfLagos:
Erm, Your dad?

Hopeless son of a cursed parents.

fergie001:
Buhari is going Southern Christian.

We'll be watching the drama very closely. Like I said earlier, he should make his choice and bring him to the eagles square for a free and fair primary. Shikena!

PointZerom:
Glad you recognize who you're.

Uhundan

PrinceOfLagos:
Fake news

Tinubu is a drowning man, Atiku don't need him

Mad man welcome.

Grab your popcorn let's enjoy the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVXmScHa2k

fergie001:
OK


I sent you that video to see what they did to those who hoped to vote Ambode.


He is speaking with them, calm down.


His first Choice was allegedly VP Osinbajo before the PDP Primary, now his Position will be clearly spelt out when he returns.

His first Choice was allegedly VP Osinbajo before the PDP Primary, now his Position will be clearly spelt out when he returns.

Everything has been allegedly. Whatever it is, his choice must remain in the south.

Updating9JA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWSUO2Rkb4Y

Buhari Was A Serial Loser Until I Made Him President, It Is Now My Turn - Bola Tinubu

Previous thread https://www.nairaland.com/7158466/tinubu-without-me-buhari-lost

Why the tears everywhere? You people have been blaming Tinubu for bringing Buhari, now that Tinubu has openly admitted he brought Buhari,the same people are now crying all over the place. Lol......

MASTAkiLLAh:
I watched a video of Tinubu in Ogun state yesterday where he made disparaging comments against President Buhari and other politicians including the Ogun state governor.

There's freedom of speech I agree but Tinubu should remember that politicians are a very vindictive specie of human beings, you might be the one who brought them to power but insulting them might force them to exercise that power on you.

So my question once again, is Tinubu ready for this fight he started? He who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

Did Buhari not fail three times?
Did he not cry on national TV?
So?
These guys should be reminded where they're coming from. They've forgotten those who made them to be enjoying the office they occupy today.

This one thinks like someone from the south east. They're incapable of any rational thoughts. Always daydreaming.

Nigerialabalaba:
In this throwback video, watch how the thugs and supporters of Ogun State Ex-Gov Amosun booed and stoned then APC Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, just to stop Dapo Abiodun's presentation as APC gubernatorial candidate.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJL5WKvZtYc


In the video, you will see that the stadium is full of supporters of APM and those campaigning for Akinlade who the Ex-Gov Amosun was supporting against his party's choice, Dapo Abiodun.

It was Tinubu who personally went to fetch the flag and threw it to the podium in the view of everyone so that it will not be stolen and torn.

No single poster of Dapo Abiodun is in that stadium and most of the APC supporters were locked outside the stadium.

Tinubu is actually right that he personally fought to ensure that Dapo Abiodun becomes the Ogun governor.

Tinubu truly has something to be proud about when it comes to pushing people up. I think that virtue is one of the reasons most of his opponents hate him; Tinubu makes them appear bad.

FACT: Tinubu truly stood by Dapo Abiodun to become the governor and is right to demand that Dapo Abiodun reciprocate his support for him.

cc Seun Mynd44 Lalasticlala

History does not lie.

Truthisunique2:
The fact that osinbajo is still paying his minors to sell him and blackmail the pending announcement is sign that he isn't buhari choice

Lol.... sharap dia. You better join the blackmailing game.

Hahahahahahahaha......so Osinbajo can also play the blackmailing game too? Hehehehehe.......

Buhari the most popular politician in the north how many millions of votes did he get in the north in 2015 that Osinbajo will be having 15million in the north alone.?

Propaganda and blackmail are the new tools for the closing days to the primary.

jaybenugo:
https://igberetvnews.com/1421370/peter-obi-speaks-flavour-phyno-others-meeting-photos-video/

These guys nor get time to go stay queue to vote oooooo.
I like peter obi sha......all the best. They can help influence some people though.

Truthisunique2:
werey you have been missing since

How you dey dilute your tilumbu pains

Tinubu is not in any race at the moment since the party is going for consesus

Buhari doesn't fear the idiot, buhari have time for revealing his candidate just like he did in Chairman

I went on a business trip. I'm not a jobless clown like you. Try to get a life.