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Misterdhee1:
Where's a more pronounced Ali Modu Sheriff now? You think anyone will want to have anything to do with such disruptive character? He was a nobody until his 2 hours fame, now he will back to that nobodiness, albeit till forever.

madridsta007:
Like they came together to rescue Ondo-State born Sowore after spending over half a year in Buhari's Gulag...
While Nnamdi Kanu spent less than a week
Be deceiving yourself like Tinubu deceived himself. You lots are excellent at it.
Sai Buhari jo!

Ayed44:
You don't understand.

There was a script written by the cabal-backed APC governors. The plot was to seize the party from Tinubu preparatory to 2023. There are many actors in the script. Giadom was incorporated into the script to play a specific role. His role is to create a confusion and crises in the party then the cabal/governors would take it up from from there. "Just go out there and announce yourself as the acting chairman and start releasing random statements from your bedroom, we will complete the job". Giadom's job finished the moment he successfully announced there would be a NEC meeting. He has been rewarded for a job well done.

If Giadom had not declared himself acting chairman, there would not have been any need to hold the NEC meeting which ousted the Pro- Tinubu NWC.

As at today APC is now firmly under the grip of the APC governors and they are not ready to let go of it anytime soon.

adelaja70:
So that's your tribe major achievement in life.... You guys are just too dumb.

Somodooo:
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everyone is Tinubu's loyalist

living in denial is bad

Jesusloveyou:
the chairmanship will still come back to south south.
the battle will still be between oshomole faction and ameachi faction.
if the north support ameachi faction or tinubu support oshomole faction.
that is the bottom line.

Ibadansun1:
Tinubu didn't lose and Fayemi never gained anything.

All those chosen from North and South are not in the Fayemi/Elrufai faction.

Buni has always been neutral and he was the first person to publicly admit that there was a crises in APC.

The rest of the acting committee are those that can be sympathetic to Tinubu cause.

Although nothing is certain in politics.

kahal29:
The crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC) reached a denouement yesterday with the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. Davidson Iriekpen and Nseobong Okon-Ekong look at the victors and losers of the new phase in the party

WINNERS

Osaze Ize-Iyamu: Inching Closer to the Prize

He is often acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who helped to set the body rules with which the party is governed. A former Secretary to the Edo State Government, Ize-Iyamu’s quest to become governor on the platform of the APC was thwarted in 2016, forcing him to seek a similar opportunity in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He lost in the governorship election to the incumbent, Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Ize-Iyamu’s return to the APC came with a lot of intrigues and political melodrama that reverberated round the whole country.

In the wake of the Court of Appeal’s ratification of the suspension of the then APC National Chairman, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, who is the driving force behind his candidacy in the party, many had thought he might become a collateral damage in the power struggle in the party.

However, at the meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) yesterday in Abuja, his candidacy was ratified to make him one of the big gainers from the crisis in the party.

Kayode Fayemi: Sphere of Influence Increases

The Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has definitely increased his sphere of influence with the outcome of the recent APC National Executive Council meeting (NEC).

If anyone harboured a doubt the closeness between Fayemi and President Muhammadu Buhari, the veil has been torn for all to see that Fayemi, who is among those behind the scene working to restore peace to APC, has the ear of the president.

Quietly pushing for a political settlement to the APC crises, Fayemi worked behind the scenes along the the Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Abubakar Bagudu.

The main body of the proposals from Fayemi and Bagudu to Buhari was adopted at the NEC meeting.

Abubakar Bagudu: Successful Captain

From almost being subsumed in the fight against bandits that devastated much of his state, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State also had another headache to contend with in -the different battlefronts with keen gladiators, fighting for control of the APC. As Chairman of the APC Governors’ Forum, he was like the captain of a sinking ship.

Bagudu shares the credit for successfully steering the threatened ship out of troubled waters.

All Progressives Congress (APC): Saved from the Brink

Since its formation on February 6, 2013, the All Progressives Congress (APC)has weathered many storms that threatened to make it go under, largely owing to the powerful interest groups that came together to form the party.

All the crises that have bedeviled the APC can be traced to the stubborn pursuit of individual goals against the communal or general interest of the group. These past seven years, chieftains of the party, valued federal and state legislators and state governors elected on the APC platform, have parted ways with the party, often through bitter quarrels that deal telling blows on the APC.

Each time, however, when the opposition was ready to sing nunc dimitis for the APC, the party rises again, rejuvenated, like a cat with nine lives.

Mai Mala Buni: Rising Star from the North

Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State is a rising star from the North who was for a long time National Secretary of APC and the understands how the party secretariat works, meaning that he appointed most of the staff members and therefore will find no difficulty in restoring stability to party affiars. Even as he was one of the governors supporting Oshiomhole he is seen as a neutral team player and a pair of safe hands by all sides of the conflict.

LOSERS

Bola Tinubu: Taming the Lion

He has on several occasions been referred to as a master of political strategist. Never in his wildest imagination would he have thought that this would happen to him. During the countdown to the 2019 and when the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari kicked off, he was busy putting people in strategic places, indirectly oiling his political machinery, widely believed to be used to achieve his rumoured presidential ambition in 2023.

But all these came crashing down yesterday with the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC by the National Executive Committee at the behest of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The dissolved NWC is peopled by those considered loyal to him, especially Oshiomhole, who he backed at the time of trouble.

The first sign that things were not going his way was when the president on Wednesday snubbed his faction of the NWC and recognised Victor Giadom as the party’s acting national chairman. The dissolution of the NWC, despite the protestations by members, was considered as part of a larger plot to tame his presidential ambition.

Therefore, with his loss of the national structure of the party, his undeclared presidential ambition has suffered a setback.

Despite the consolatory appointment of Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State into the new caretaker committee, Tinubu would have to go back to the drawing board to reset his presidential ambition.

Adams Oshiomhole: He Has Lost the Battle, will He Win the War?

Clearly the battle to save his political legacy in Edo State has suffered a major setback in his war of attrition with Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki who he brought into politics from Lagos Corporate life at the expense of his traditional loyalists.

Though he may have succeeded in paying Obaseki back for being allegedly ungrateful to him for making him governor, that comes at a huge price. He got his fingers burnt and lost his highly influential party chairmanship.

Oshiomhole went about his fight with Obaseki in an unrelentless manner as if there was nobody to call him to order at his initial reluctance to fight with Obaseki. But in trying to pull the governor down, which he succeeded by gaming the system to force him out of the party, he went down with him.

Even if he gets settled with a ministerial, ambassadorial or board appointment, it can never be like being the national chairman of a ruling party at a time when the nation prepares for a political transition. Oshiomhole is bloodied but certainly not to be counted out. He has lost the battle, but will he win the war.

If Obaseki by any chance wins his second term bid, he may find it difficult to enter his own Edo State.

But Obaseki may have won the battle for the PDP ticket, but it remains unclear whether or not he can win the war for his re-election.

Victor Giadom: Shove Aside after a Yeoman’s Job

The Rivers-state born politician shot himself into national reckoning in the last few weeks as he made a grab for the party’s leadership position in the wake of Adam’s Oshiomhole’s suspension.

However, many will remember Chief Victor Giadom, former Deputy National Secretary of the APC as the spoiler who nearly wrecked the APC. His appearance on the scene after the suspension of Oshiomhole was upheld further factionalised the party. His subsequent activities nearly drove a nail into the coffin of the APC.

But to those familiar with political intrigues, Giadom was a pawn in a complex chess game of power.

Now that he has served his purpose, he has been shoved aside along with his colleagues in the NWC to save the queen: APC.

Chief Hillard Etah: Pawn on the Chessboard

The National Vice Chairman in-charge of the South-south was hardly known beyond his zone. That was until colleagues in the leadership of the party pushed Chief Hillard Eta forward for the post of acting National Chairman to hold the fort for Senator Abiola Ajimobi who ought to have occupied the position in the aftermath of Oshiomhole’s suspension, if not for his hospitalisation.

However, his insistence, along with other NWC to oppose other party leaders’ bid to resolve the crisis by kicking against yesterday’s NEC meeting, showed that there were other considerations driving their position.

APC NWC: Sold to Outside Influence

While it may be a case of throwing away the baby with the bathwater or one oily finger soiling the rest, the point that has been made is that the National Working Committee of the APC as previously constituted had bought into the vision and dream of one powerful individual, line, hook and sinker. Therefore, allowing any of them to remain in office could mean leaving a window of opportunity open for control by outside influence at the expense of stability in APC.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/06/26/winners-losers/

Nodogragra4me:
Off course only if the meaning of dire consequences is agreed upon by everyone of them

History555:
Continue to console yourself. Everybody is tinubu boy.
Buhari will appoint buni and buni will seek to disrespect him by working 4 tinubu.

As far as xombies are concerned, tinubu is a god no politician can betray, yet fayemi, akeredolu, koro, fash have dumped him

Zeus119:
Amechi just wants to be a Vice President to a Northern presidential candidate whereas Tinubu and his group want presidency. So who do u think the North will support to produce National Chairman of the APC?

Jesusloveyou:
vice President to northerner,
that is impossible,
APC is different from PDP on that aspect of zoning,
they can only support fayemi presidency through ameachi faction.
what if buhari support osibanjo, which faction will buhari now support to produce osibanjo,
by then, both faction will work together.
that means osibanjo presidency is the best for APC, if APC must continue as a party.

Ibadansun1:
Who appointed them?

You are joker

You mean Fayemi, Elrufai appointed them?

Bigleaf1006:
This is a deft political masterstroke for whomever's interest is being protected.

Buhari made the best decision by desolving the NWC and attending that NEC. he consulted well and took the interest of the warring camps and subsumed them.

Oshiomole is gone which many were hell bent on seeing and Party control now seemingly balanced which some others also wanted.

Oshiomole was too hot a water to be touched and any one who supports him would know that the best thing was for him to step aside.

I don't think tinubu would have wanted to unnecessarily go all guns blazing to protect oshiomole the bull in the China shop.

ThatFairGuy:
Eni a o to lan n gan. Virtually, You can't envy who you're above, you envy who is above you. Hence these hatred for Ashiwaju Tinubu. We know it's all because he's cog to the wheel of Igbo's unachievable Presidency
Jagaban, baba ni baba nje lojokojo. FATHER OF THEM ALL

Somodooo:
unbiased report

but to me Gaidom is not the loser
he's just a destroyer and a spoiler tool used by who is who to achieve the primary aim which is caging Tinubu's faction which was successfully.
so technically his mission has been completed
remember fayemi and Giadom are in the same camp so you can't mention fayemi as a winner and skip Giadom

tesppidd:
I do understand.

We both agree that Giadom was only a hatchet man used in executing the job of removing Adams and clipping Tinubu's wings.

Yes I concurr.

Where i think we differ is the aftermath.

The other faction led by Amaechi and El Rufai expected that having removed Oshiomole, Giadom would be left for some time as acting chairman so they could strategize. Amaechi for one has a lot of jobs Giadom could have done for him in Rivers state.

But the immediate removal of Giadom is a shocker to Giadom and to the camp that used him.



Lastly I implore you to stop thinking that the entire governors have got some sort of unshaken solidarity with one another.

Politics is about interest and not about being governors in the same forum.

Lemme give an example with Hope Uzodinma and Abdullahi Ganduje.
These are 2 governors of Imo and Kano but it would be almost impossible for them to be more loyal to other governors than Oshiomole who staked his office to make sure they became governors.
Lagos governor nko? Could he be more loyal to other governors than Tinubu?

There is nothing like governors have hijacked anything.

Jesusloveyou:
nothing like consequences,
even Donald trump can not go against anyone for taken him to court

ThatFairGuy:
Trash The writer can go on and on to fool himself and his likes.
Ashiwaju Tinubu to the world. He's too popular.

Those that constituted the caretaker committee are in one way or the other oshiomhole and Tinubu people.

Yobe State Governor who is the caretaker Chairman was immediate former secretary of Chief Bisi Akande/Oshiomole who resigned to contest Gubernatorial election in Yobe State.
He is a closed and loyalist member of Tinubu group with Senate president. Governor Oyetola of osun state is a member representing southwest and David Lyon is the one representing South-south. Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

David Lyon is Tinubu and Oshiomole loyalist. Those who said primary conducted in Edo state which produced Osagie Iyamu has been dissaponted.Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

Buhari ratified the primary election and Iyamu candidacy of Edo APC. Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

seguntijan:
I thought President Buhari was going to support Gaidom to act as the National Chairman of APC. I didn't know the man will be nothing in the party after the meeting he summoned.
Giadom called for a meeting hoping that he will be approved by President Buhari and Silence Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
He was removed as acting Chairman right in that meeting..
Oshiomole's boy was made Chairman of Caretaker committee.
The Governor of Osun State Oyetola was part of the committee
Edo primaries ratified.
Giadom displaced right in the meeting while the decisions went the way of The national leader of the party Jagaban despite not in the meeting.
Even when his antagonists thought they have silenced him, president Buhari just kept silent are delivers a knockout punch.
You might love him or hate him, but this was a Big win for the Jagaban. The man is a super political Strategist.
MAY WE NEVER CALL FOR MEETING THAT WILL LEAD TO OUR REMOVAL

Zeus119:
I repeat, North is not willing or ready to concede power to any Southerner.in 2023. You have seen the plot being manifested already and u still believe they are doing all these for Fayemi?

Bitchiamjay:
As it stands now, Tinubu is totally irrelevant in APC.
Tinubu mistake started when he denied Ambode his second term ticket. Buhari was busy planning for his second tenure, so he overlooked Lagos state crisis and let Tinubu play his card. Although he told Tinubu to let Ambode run for second term but Jagaban claimed the party members doesn’t want Ambode. Buhari kept mum because he wanted support from Jagaban, his supporters, Oshiomole, NWC etc for his second term.
Now, Buhari has nothing to lose. He doesn’t need all those you mentioned above to push the button, it’s a work with me or dance with the masquerade. Right in front of those you mentioned, he was making changes that doesn’t even favor their Leader and they were busy smiling and clapping! Tinubu is just a .ceremonial APC leader , Mohammed Buhari is the Alpha and Omega of the party .

This is politics .

ThatFairGuy:
Trash The writer can go on and on to fool himself and his likes.
Ashiwaju Tinubu to the world. He's too popular.

Those that constituted the caretaker committee are in one way or the other oshiomhole and Tinubu people.

Yobe State Governor who is the caretaker Chairman was immediate former secretary of Chief Bisi Akande/Oshiomole who resigned to contest Gubernatorial election in Yobe State.
He is a closed and loyalist member of Tinubu group with Senate president. Governor Oyetola of osun state is a member representing southwest and David Lyon is the one representing South-south. Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

David Lyon is Tinubu and Oshiomole loyalist. Those who said primary conducted in Edo state which produced Osagie Iyamu has been dissaponted.Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

Buhari ratified the primary election and Iyamu candidacy of Edo APC. Tinubu/Oshiomhole won

Jesusloveyou:
2023 is still far,
buhari will handover to osibanjo. so tinubu will not shake the table now, until then.

Nodogragra4me:
I am not the author of the statement. The president of Nigeria said so.

Bitchiamjay:
Politicians are always ahead of time.
Buhari can never hand over to a yoruba man ! Mark this post !

Jesusloveyou:
and buhari will never handover to northerners or Igbo.

buhari is a gentleman.

Bitchiamjay:
From the look of things , I see the mantle remaining in North.