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Former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is leaving no one in doubt that he calls the shots in the party as he has penciled down his key men to lead the new National Assembly, NASS, to be inaugurated early June.
With the party’s power sharing formula, Tinubu has positioned his men to takeover available positions zoned to the regions. APC zoned the Senate Presidency to the North-Central, Speakership to the South-West, Tinubu’s region, which also produced the Vice President, the Secretary to Government of the Federation, SGF to the South-East and the Senate Majority Leader to the South-West.
Going by the zoning arrangement, the battle on how to fill the vacancies has started in earnest with Tinubu said to have lined up three strong contenders to take over the leadership of the 8th NASS.
He is alleged to be backing Senator George Akume, former Benue State Governor and long time political ally from the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN to be the Senate President.
In the same vein, Tinubu is backing Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, his political protégé to take over as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, while at the same time positioning his wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to be the Senate Majority Leader.
Though he is said to be facing stiff opposition from those backers of Senator Bukola Saraki, mainly from the party’s governors, Nigerian Pilot learnt that he is playing a religious card in pushing the candidature of Akume and Gbajabiamila.
Tinubu’s argument, it was gathered, is that if Saraki is allowed to be Senate President, and Hon. Gbajabiamila becomes the Speaker, it would open the party to criticisms given the fact that the President-elect is a Muslim and both Saraki and Gbajabiamila are also Muslims.
According to Tinubu’s argument, the religious balancing would come only when the Senate president is a Christian and the natural choice is Akume.
The former Lagos governor also allegedly blackmailed Saraki’s backers with a case of N21billion preferred against the former governor of Kwara State by the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police. He purportedly told them that the party cannot be championing anti-corruption and at the same time promoting someone who has such a “dirty” case still hanging on his neck. This, according to insiders, has ruffled many feathers in the APC hierarchy with many afraid the party may slide into a one-man show.
The zoning of Speakership to the South-West, it is understood, has caused a friction between Tinubu and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the party’s national chairman, who had passionately pleaded that the party zone the slot to the South-South in order for his preferred candidate, Mr. Pally Iriase, from Edo State to get the office. For all Odigie-Oyegun’s pleas, Tinubu reminded him how he also went against the wishes of many and installed him as the APC chairman.
With the Vice President-elect, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo being Tinubu’s ally, Odigie-Oyegun’s argument is that it would amount to unexplainable greed for the party to allow Tinubu to also take the Speakership slot.
However, Tinubu is understood to have stood his ground, threatening to throw the Speakership position open to contest, a position he well understands he would have upper hand because of the number of House of Representatives members from the South-West as compared to Odigie-Oyegun’s South-South.
If Tinubu bulldozes his way through as he is bent on doing, it means that he would have been responsible for three of the four most powerful positions in Nigeria. He singlehandedly nominated the vice president-elect.
Meanwhile, the zoning of the SGF to the South-East has opened a fresh battle on who succeeds Chief Anyim Pius Anyim between Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and Dr. Chris Ngige, all former governors and eminently qualified for the office.
Insiders in the party are favouring Onu, arguing that he is more of a stabiliser, tilting towards a technocrat than Ngige who is seen as an everyday politician.
Onu’s maturity and for the fact that he comes from the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP wing of the APC, may stand him in good stead ahead of Ngige who comes from the ACN wing of the party. ANPP has not really benefitted much in terms of sharing positions in the party and if it is still denied this, it may cause great disaffection in the party.

http://www.thecapital.ng/index.php/politics/2183-tinubu-hijacks-senate-reps-leadership-oyegun-kicks-ngige-onu-jostle-for-sfg

See how dem ama sell we country.

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Barby101:
It's 'chose' though.

That was a near - flawless write - up. However, you chose to pick on the only error, inconsequential albeit. Na ur type dem dey call PhD (Pull Him Down ).

What did he smoke?

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thanks bros.
Dont mind dat yeye chairman wey one spoil market 4 d boys.
#MOVING FORWARD

As u read dis, chances are dat som pple are currently engaged in dis barbaric act and will b caught in d not-too-distant future, den paraded in d public n on dis forum.
Well guess which jersey dey'll b adorning.

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*winks*

Two yoruba girls. #BOGOF

Two yoruba girls

Maybe his wife jst cant cook. Typical modern naija gals.

Noted.
Wen iz d prog supposed 2 start, n wats d pay gonna b lyk?

Haba na. She isnt sick na. She's goin 4 d 2nd part of her accumulated leave.
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4 dose peeps dat attended d interview 4 sat. n sun., how did it go?

If dis is genuine, God bles d giver.

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Pple r rili abusing dis tin calld 'Freedom of Speech.'

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never born on December,25 as
Calendars were not stabilised during
His Birth. Celebrating December,25 is a
calculated & mathematical insult on the prophethood & personage of Jesus
Christ. December,25 was the traditional
Birthday of the Anglo-Saxon goddess
of fraternity. Therefore, just like January
1st, Celebrating Christmas is despicably Heretical- because, December,25 was wickedly foisted upon the minds of the Christians & lukewarm Muslims as Jesus' Birthday. THINK!

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#crabtheorists.

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So it's anathema 2 brush a lousy lady but a norm 2 do d same 2 a guy. #nitwits.

Perhaps it's not yet nite.