₦airaland Forum

“CPC Black Sheep, holding Press Conference today, to support the Tinubu-led federal government and Gondollar-led APC”

- by: Dalhatu Danzago
- 14th April 2025 - Part 1

The last week has been an interesting time in Nigerian politics. The Tinubu government with an absentee president who would never transfer power to his sidelined deputy as required by the Constitution is away to France for 8th time on one pretext or another (but never the truth - serious health challenges). Tinubu’s media team went helter-skelter managing the fall-out of the accusations of violating the federal character provisions of the Constitution by appointing over 150 persons with Yoruba-sounding names in virtually every key agency of the government in every economic, financial, legal and social sector - by suggesting that all appointments were on merit, of course.

It is not only the other five geopolitical zones that were unconstitutionally excluded from the distribution of key appointments in the Tinubu government. The members of the defunct CPC which was the largest single electoral bloc amongst the parties that merged into the APC in 2013, has been virtually excluded from the leadership of the executive and legislative arms of government. This has not only angered the defunct CPC leaders, but has infuriated the electorate that gave Tinubu more votes than even his ancestral Southwest gave him in the 2023 election.

As soon as the Tinubu government settled into office, former president Buhari and his legacy came under deliberate attack for a reason that wasn’t clear then, but evident now. Every hardship caused by the reckless policies and their poor implementation and sequencing was being on what was inherited from the Buhari administration. Every incident of insecurity and the failure to prevent is blamed on the Buhari administration. This has not only angered the defunct CPC leaders but has infuriated the electorate that gave Tinubu more votes than even his ancestral Southwest gave him in the 2023 election.

A deliberate policy of appeasing and paying kidnappers and bandits in the North-West zone is reminiscent of the decision of a previous government to ignore Boko Haram’s territorial gains in the North-East at the time, as part of a strategy of vote suppression in zones that are perceived as unlikely to vote for the incumbent president in those days. The Tinubu approach to solving security problems in the North-West combines denial, media propaganda and negotiating with (and paying) bandits. In the guise of ‘non-kinetic strategy’, kidnapping and banditry incidents have escalated in Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, and Kaduna States in the North-West as the bandits have been paid billions in ransom monies that have been then used to acquire even more lethal weapons. The states of North- West were the most consistent electoral base of the defunct CPC and former President Buhari. This has not only angered the defunct CPC leaders but has infuriated the electorate that gave Tinubu more votes than even his ancestral Southwest gave him in the 2023 election.

Tinubu’s national security and economic policy officials appear to have undying hatred for Buhari and his legacy and did everything to rubbish him as soon they got into office. It is on record that officials like Nuhu Ribadu and Wale Edun had attempted at various times to blame the fallout of the Tinubu government’s ill-timed fuel subsidy removal (without any thought of a social safety net) and the equally idiotic floating of the Naira (without adequate foreign reserves to ensure exchange rate stability) on the Buhari administration that had prudently managed these for 8 years without causing harm to lives and livelihoods. This has not only angered the defunct CPC leaders but has infuriated the electorate that gave Tinubu more votes than even ancestral Southwest gave him in the 2023 election.

Dalhatu Danzago writes from Paris, France
ddanzago@yahoo.fr
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DonFreshmoney:
Lol.. this are not even the main CPC caucus or the reserves. These people are the least CPC bloc members who were either sacked by Buhari or removed from their positions by previous administration.

KennethOkonkwo:
Al makura who was the only CPC governor when the coalition was formed is a black sheep?


So,na hell rufai your master who was just a refugee in CPC when it was formed that is a white sheep.




Hell rufai has looted the writer brain

gigabyte13:
Their support is original
Any other support is fake
That's how born lossers reason.
They think the world revolves around them only.....
Hell fire Rufai go cry tire
Nothing for am even in 2031
Him cry go continue.