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APC NWC moves to check sabotage, bypasses govs in agents’ selection

The cold war between President Bola Tinubu and governors elected on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) has worsened, following the aloof posture of some northern chief executives towards the President’s re-election bid

This was as indications emerged that the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) bypassed governors and directed its candidates to submit the names of their proposed party agents directly to the national secretariat to prevent possible sabotage during the 2027 general elections.


Upon his return from his recent overseas vacation, the President expressed dismay that state governors were not doing enough to enlighten their people on the achievements of his administration.

Barely two months ago, the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, noted how not more than five state governors from the northern region were demonstrating tacit support for the President’s re-election.

However, the Vice President’s media office, while clarifying the statement, noted that Shettima was referring to the governors’ posture in the lead-up to the 2022 APC presidential primary.

But, in a conversation with the governor of one of the North-West states yesterday, The Guardian was told that the Vice President’s position reflected the present situation within the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), the umbrella caucus of the APC
governors.

The governor, who is also seeking a second term, said that despite attempts to pretend that all was well between President Tinubu and the governors, the APC leadership’s inability to resolve lingering misunderstandings within the party’s ranks was taking its toll on the party’s preparedness for next year’s poll.

He disclosed that the majority of the APC governors in the North were not bold to canvass support for the President’s second term, adding that a tour of most northern states showed that while some governorship candidates’ billboards in the city centres have the photos of the President and the Vice President, those in the hinterland do not showcase Tinubu.

Regarding the perceived estrangement of Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma, who doubles as PGF Chairman and Scribe of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, he refused to elaborate on the relationship between the PGF chairman and the President.

“The much I can tell you is that we have a situation in the PGF, which is also affecting the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF). The President promised to wade into the misunderstanding among the governors, but no concrete action has been taken.

“There are governors who want the PGF chairman to hand over the office and face his assignments on the Campaign Council and the Renewed Hope Ambassadors. But, the chairman maintains that the tradition has always been that
handing over should be to a second-term governor after general elections,” he said.

[color=#000099] He said that three major considerations underlie the divided loyalty of some of his colleagues in the North, adding that the travails of the immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, despite his fight for the President’s election, are among them.
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The governor said Tinubu’s directive to the Finance Ministry to publish disbursements is seen as a direct target at state governors, particularly on the use of local council funds.

He added that the President’s open support for the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, and his Rainbow Coalition was the last nail in the coffin of the icy relationship between the PGF and the Presidency.


THE move by APC NWC, The Guardian gathered, was designed to ensure that the party safeguards its electoral victory by bypassing state chapters that traditionally handle such submissions

The directive, which represented a departure from the party’s established protocol, is understood to be part of a strategy to prevent possible sabotage on election day by governors suspected of working against the party’s interests

Multiple sources within the party hierarchy confirmed that the decision was taken after intelligence suggested that some state governors were allegedly orchestrating a scheme to install
loyalists as APC polling agents while simultaneously financing candidates on opposition platforms

https://guardian.ng/news/2027-northern-govs-covert-support-unsettles-tinubus-camp/

Hold your friends close and your enemies closer.

The governors have been the problem of this country.

It is only the politically naïve that would think Tinubu's betrayal of Elrufai will not have political ramifications on his Northern support base. The treachery makes whoever wants to go overboard for Tinubu to check himself because with Tinubu, nothing is assured. No Northerner can surpass what Elrufai did for Tinubu in the North in 2023. Anyone claiming they will is only deceiving Tinubu.

The kind of dirty politics Tinubu plays is going to be used against him. How can you abruptly dislodge those who have been holding the fort for the gatecrashers into the APC party?

@Aminda I give you your flowers for predicting all these unfolding events from antiquity

Let's get the betrayal started
The north will always remember

Racoon:
The kind of dirty politics Tinubu plays is going to be used against him. How can you abruptly dislodge those who have been holding the fort for the gayecrahsers into the party?

@Aminda I give you your flowers for predicting all these unfolding events from antiquity

Thanks. Time is a gentleman and in the end, we will all learn politics together!

Franktom247:
Let's get the betrayal started
The north will always remember

Good or bad, Northerners ALWAYS pay their debts no matter how long it tarries. This is sacrosanct and is as certain as death.

Las las Nigeria will be OK

Tinubu in the mud

You need not be told why they keep destroying his banners all over in the north

Tinubu’s worshippers are busy hailing him on Nairaland .. when their Demi fool call god is sweating from the nyash..

And they will hail him out of aso rock

You tell them the fastest selling brand in northern Nigeria today is Waziri

The tell you from their caves in Ekiti that tinubu will win and conquer all when he has failed to conquer osun for his cousin

Like Aminda said we will all learn politics together

Tinubu is living in fear .. same is nyesom wike .. that one have no peace for months now and will not have for years to come

Some one that said he keep thinking of election .. and nothing else

Peace has eluded him

Meanwhile their online worshippers are busy swimming on air and snoring on a speeding bike with their hallucinations

Power to the people

Is clear

We don't give a hoot. We prepared ourselves early

Arewa will play and dribble the Yoruba Demi god as their slave he is

They will chop his dollar and sing on his mandate 🤣

Nlfpmod let's get this to the front page

Tinubu will understand mutumu Arewa better after Jan 16, 2027. Atiku Abubakar is the next President of Nigeria.

There is no common interest this time around. Not religion, not region, not friendship. Everyone for himself.

Anyone that's not seeing Tinubu's defeat yet is very myopic. Emilokan will be sent packing next year

AMINDA:
It is only the politically naïve that would think Tinubu's betrayal of Elrufai will not have political ramifications on his Northern support base. The treachery makes whoever wants to go overboard for Tinubu to check himself because with Tinubu, nothing is assured. No Northerner can surpass what Elrufai did for Tinubu in the North in 2023. Anyone claiming they will is only deceiving Tinubu.

For the umpteenth time, core north has never supported any southerner for a second term.

Nothing new here.

Tinubu made a mistake by handing over money 💰 to polithiefcians a.k.a Bandits Governors.
Day don break na .

Christian Core North, North Central and South are in the bag for Tinubu

For a better Nigeria and if you don't want the suffering to continue, Vote for Peter OBI and have peace.

If you are bypassing governors, governors that are in charge of the party machinery of each state outside Rivers and Lagos state, then what structure do you have? Loyalty is earned and not forced. When Tinubu was strong arming governors into his campaign everyone knew it was going to be a matter of time. The governors aren't stupid. They know the president is a hard sell.

By the way, a president that cannot come out and campaign for himself has no business demanding governors do so for him. President is in hiding and yet he expects governors to go and face the heat. How? How

the President expressed dismay that state governors were not doing enough to enlighten their people on the achievements of his administration....

Which achievements is he talking about...

Of course, a little boost to keep the good vibes flowing.

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Ironfaceman:
Hold your friends close and your enemies closer.

The governors have been the problem of this country.

And the problem is not the head, a faaake certttifficcate hollldderr?

Dotherightthing:
Christian Core North, North Central and South are in the bag for Tinubu

Which one be Christian core north again, is Kano state not a core Muslim state?

The KKK states in the north have all rejected tinubu

Let's pray for the safe removal of tulumbu come January 2027, so that he won't be forcefully disgraced from office and chased out

Odin13:
Arewa will play and dribble the Yoruba Demi god as their slave he is

They will chop his dollar and sing on his mandate 🤣

Lols. What he did to our son GEJ is staring directly at him

Dotherightthing:
Christian Core North, North Central and South are in the bag for Tinubu

Thesame Christians you and your folks told their were no geno"c*de

You know you are decieving yourself like your messiah the faaaake certttifficcate hollldderr

Make Tinubu buy return ticket to Iragbiji now that flight ticket is still cheap oh

Last minute booking go too cost

When I see comments of those targeting Tinubu to lose election I laughed, the question is who will eventually suffer...the answer is Nigerians, when Jonathan was bullied out of office...who suffered... Nigerians...If Tinubu is pushed out today....still Nigerians will suffer in the hands of whosoever is coming after.

If you think Atiku and Obi will return subsidy first ask yourself how will they fund it.

Dotherightthing:
Christian Core North, North Central and South are in the bag for Tinubu

Christian core north to support Muslim Muslim administration that spent 6m usd per month paying lobbyists in Capitol hill to deny the Christian genocide.

Is that the Christian core north you are expecting to get your support from or the ones at RCCG?