…in order to avoid repeat of 2018 primaries where money played major role

To avoid a repeat of what happened in 2018 primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to choose the National chairman, National Secretary and National Organising Secretary, a source in the party has revealed. It was strongly alleged that money was used to obtain tickets of the party in the 2018 primaries, a situation party members claim affected the fortunes of the party in the 2019 General Elections.

To this effect, candidates for the National Chairmanship position have intensified their lobby of the Presidency to secure the endorsement of President Buhari. The candidates, Saturday Telegraph gathered, have started assembling lobby teams for their ambitions. The party source said: “The President was embarrassed about the report of the transaction during the 2018 primaries. As you were aware some persons were said to have been invited by the DSS on the allegations of financial impropriety during the primaries. A repeat of this, the Presidency, said must be avoided.”

Those who have indicated interest to contest for the National Chairmanship position of the party are: Senator Sani Musa (Niger) North Central; former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Tanko Al-Makura (Nasarawa) North Central; former governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume (Benue) North Central; former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff (Borno) North East; former governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdullazizi Yari (Zamfara) North West; Alhaji Saliu Mustapha (Kwara) North Central; former governor of Bauchi State, Malam Isa Yuguda (Bauchi), North East; former governor of Nasarawa, Senator Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa) North Central; Mr. Sunny Silvester Moniedafe (Adamawa), North East and Alhaji Abdullahi Sani Shinkafi (Zamfara) North West.

The candidates would start the collection of their Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms on February 14 going by the timetable released by the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). A close associate of Senator Sani Musa campaign team said that the Senators, led by the Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan, are in the forefront of lobbying the Presidency and other relevant organs of the party for Senator Musa.

According to the source, the Senators are reaching out to those who are considered to be closed to the Presidency to have Musa adopted as the consensus candidate. Also the campaign team of the former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Tanko Al-Makura, is said to be gathering some governors, members of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and some Senators to lobby the Presidency and also other relevant organs of the party for adoption of their principal, Senator Al-Makura, as consensus candidate. Similarly, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs,Senator George Akume, is relying on his colleagues in the Federal Executive Cabinet (FEC) to achieve his ambition in the lobbying game. Akume is a two-term governor, a Senator and now a serving Minister.

His supporters believe that he is the only candidate with a relationship with influencers of the National Convention. Also, candidates like the former governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Saliu Mustapha, are relying on the personal relationship with the President. Senator Adamu in the 8th Senate was said to have opposed the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki because of President Buhari and Mustapha was the Deputy National Chairman of defunct of CPC, one of the legacy parties that formed APC and also the party on whose platform the President contested the Presidential election in 2011.

All the candidates are presenting different credentials of relationships with the President. Beyond the Presidency, the aspirants are also lobbying the APC Tripartite Committee chaired by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. The Tripartite Committee is made up of the Vice President, Senate President, Senator Ahmed Lawan, Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Caretaker Committee Chairman and governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni and others.

The Committee was set up to harmonise and improve the relationship among the Executive, Legislature and the National leadership of the party. They also would assert influence on who becomes the National Chairman other relevant positions. Meanwhile, a Chieftain of the party has said that members would not elect “cash and carry,” National Working Committee (NWC) members. According to him, the NWC members to be elected must be people of impeccable character. The party chieftain alleged that the last NWC members led by a former governor sold the party tickets to the highest bidders, a situation he said affected the party negatively in the 2019 General Elections.

The APC stalwart said: “Party members are committed to elect NWC members with integrity, who would not consider monetary gains in considering candidates for elections. “The losses we suffered in 2019 General Elections were due to the monetization of our primaries. If not that President Muhammadu Buhari was on the ballot for that election the damage would have been much.

“As you can see, President Buhari is not going to be on the ballot for the 2023 elections, therefore the party must tread with caution and that caution must come from the NWC. If we don’t elect National Chairman, National Secretary and National Organising Secretary that are sincere and committed to the progress of the party, we are gone.”

https://www.newtelegraphng.com/sources-buhari-to-pick-apcs-chairman-secretary-organising-sec/


Lalasticlala

Tinubu will cry like a baby

Sheybi he no wan hear word, He thinks Buhari will allow him use his ill gotten money to bribe people to be on his side ...

Buhari will choose who becomes APC chairman and that person won't dance to the tune of Tinubu's bullion van

It's game on baby

BUHARI should at least appoint one of his BMC members here on Nairaland


If not I go vex swallow #500 indosid

Even before February 26th, Tinubu and his urchins are already in the mud .

After the 2023 elections, I will write a book on the 3 Yoruba northern slaves of Awolowo, Abiola and Tinubu, who died without ever that for which they were ready to sell the entire Yoruba land to the north.

To please the north, after Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison to go to the West and coordinate the secession of Western Nigeria, Awolowo went home and joined forces with Gowon to sustain one Nigeria. Advising Gowon to use food blockade as a war tool against the Southeast.

To please the north, Abiola was caught on tape saying that he would sink a ship bringing Bible to Nigeria or did he even mastermind the sinking of the ship? I heard the missionaries who ordered the Bible placed a curse on him.

And in a repeat of history, to please the north, Tinubu worked a fellow Southerner who was president and enthroned an illiterate northerner. Only to turn around now and be talking about power returning to the South. Onye ala!

Like Awolowo and Abiola before him, Tinubu will die with that one unfulfilled ambition.

pyyxxaro:
BUHARI should at least appoint one of his BMC members here on Nairaland


If not I go vex swallow #500 indosid

I for recommend Helinues but N5000 is enough to buy his conscience

PrinceOfLagos:

I for recommend Helinues but N5000 is enough to buy his conscience

Laughs in Oron

Gossip news

Penguin2:
Even before February 26th, Tinubu and his urchins are already in the mud .

After the 2023 elections, I will write a book on the 3 Yoruba northern slaves of Awolowo, Abiola and Tinubu, who died without ever that for which they were ready to sell the entire Yoruba land to the north.

To please the north, after Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison to go to the West and coordinate the secession of Western Nigeria, Awolowo went home and joined forces with Gowon to sustain one Nigeria. Advising Gowon to use food blockade as a war tool against the Southeast.

To please the north, Abiola was caught on tape saying that he would sink a ship bringing Bible to Nigeria or did he even mastermind the sinking of the ship? I heard the missionaries who ordered the Bible placed a curse on him.

And in a repeat of history, to please the north, Tinubu worked a fellow Southerner who was president and enthroned an illiterate northerner. Only to turn around now and be talking about power returning to the South. Onye ala!

Like Awolowo and Abiola before him, Tinubu will die with that one unfulfilled ambition.

My own concern In every thing that you said is that God and well-meaning yorubas and lagosians will not and never allow the drug baron and drug addict Bobo Chicago become president.
Affliction shall not arise the second time!

helinues:
Gossip news

It's Gossip news to you because the news did not favour Tinubu

PrinceOfLagos:

It's Gossip news to you because the news did not favour Tinubu

Life is too beautiful to be hating someone who never knew about your existence

helinues:


Life is too beautiful to be hating someone who never knew about your existence

Yet you want that someone to be my president

Are you trying to be funny or something ?

ThEGodFaThEr101:

My own concern In every thing that you said is that God and well-meaning yorubas and lagosians will not and never allow the drug baron and drug addict Bobo Chicago become president.
Affliction shall not arise the second time!

Iseee!

PrinceOfLagos:


Yet you want that someone to be my president

Are you trying to be funny or something ?

For the fact that you have no major things you have supported that are the real deal or make any tangible analysis or opinion about issues, then your opinion about Tinubu's presidency is inconsequential

helinues:


For the fact that you have no major things you have supported that are the real deal or make any tangible analysis or opinion about issues, then your opinion about Tinubu's presidency is inconsequential

Then why be angry over my stand on Tinubu?

You've always been on the look out for my post on Tinubu so you would counter it with your stale lies and audio propaganda

PrinceOfLagos:

Then why be mad over my stand on Tinubu?

Because we don't want you to get @ bolded regarding Tinubu's matter

helinues:


Because we don't want you to get @ bolded regarding Tinubu's matter

Tinubu is a corrupt man and not qualified to be Nigeria president

We no want thief to lead us

PrinceOfLagos:

Tinubu is a corrupt man and not qualified to be Nigeria president

We no want thief to lead us

And you have any moral justification to call others corrupt??

Same you that have lied more than Mr Lai Muhammed even on irrelevant things on this forum.

Tell NL's how RuudVanNistroyz moniker which is based in both Holland and Canada at the same time with PrinceofLagos moniker residing in Imo state even though both monikers are being operated by one person.

Try and have eyes pushing nigga

helinues:


And you have any moral justification to call others corrupt??

Same you that have lied more than Mr Lai Muhammed even on irrelevant things in this forum.

Tell NL's how RuudVanNistroyz moniker which is based in both Holland and Canada at the same time with PrinceofLagos moniker residing in Imo state even though both monikers are being operated by one person.

Try and have eyes pushing nigga

I have no either what you're talking about

I am prince and Lagos is my home , Stop mistaking me for someone else

Buhari is mad

Your igbo papa put Tinubu problem for head de wail across Alaigbo like person wey e no fit beta for.

PrinceOfLagos:
Tinubu will cry like a baby

Sheybi he no wan hear word, He thinks Buhari will allow him use his ill gotten money to bribe people to be on his side ...

Buhari will choose who becomes APC chairman and that person won't dance to the tune of Tinubu's bullion van

It's game on baby

TrackerXL:
Your igbo papa put Tinubu problem for head de wail across Alaigbo like person wey e no fit beta for.

lol egbo oponu dindinrin ayi rada

Penguin2:
Even before February 26th, Tinubu and his urchins are already in the mud .

After the 2023 elections, I will write a book on the 3 Yoruba northern slaves of Awolowo, Abiola and Tinubu, who died without ever that for which they were ready to sell the entire Yoruba land to the north.

To please the north, after Ojukwu released Awolowo from Calabar prison to go to the West and coordinate the secession of Western Nigeria, Awolowo went home and joined forces with Gowon to sustain one Nigeria. Advising Gowon to use food blockade as a war tool against the Southeast.

To please the north, Abiola was caught on tape saying that he would sink a ship bringing Bible to Nigeria or did he even mastermind the sinking of the ship? I heard the missionaries who ordered the Bible placed a curse on him.

And in a repeat of history, to please the north, Tinubu worked a fellow Southerner who was president and enthroned an illiterate northerner. Only to turn around now and be talking about power returning to the South. Onye ala!

Like Awolowo and Abiola before him, Tinubu will die with that one unfulfilled ambition.

Awolowo, Abiola and Tinubu. Those names will always be attached to greatness and honour in Nigeria, and in Africa as a whole.

These are the achievers and they have the achievements and landmarks for all to see. They are not the likes of figurehead president Azikwe that ran to England having pre-knowledge of the first coup that consumed his Prime Minister and others nor Ironsi that promulgated the decree that put an end to regional autonomy, thinking he had arrived with his kinsmen to take over of the whole country. Nor the coward Ojukwu that started a war he cannot finish, he ran away to Cote d'Ivore dressed like a woman after allowing millions of Igbos to die miserably.

We know that you Igbos are our number one enemy, we don't give a damn, but gradually the day of reckoning is nigh. We shall pay you back in your coin. Let's wait and see.