Progressive Congress, APC, may be growing from strength to strength but its also multiplying in troubles. This is because there is a growing tension among the former members who held the ship when the party was not this big and the new entrants who came inn based on agreements to hold relevant leadership posts as they come into the new fold.
Recently, the national body of APC set up the National Reconciliation Committee to intensifies efforts to ensure harmony in the party, but despite that, the following issues remain unresolved.
The status of former Governor of Osun State and immediate past National
Secretary of new Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola is
still unclear within the state chapter of the APC.>>>>>
A tussle for the soul of the party in Kano between
Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and his predecessor, Ibrahim Shekarau is still
raging on without a clear end on site.
This came as members of the G5 governors that defected to
the APC from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said they did not join APC to
become leaders.
Indeed, National Secretary of APC, Mr. Fidelis Tumza in a
telephone interview with Vanguard, said that the on-going reconciliation effort
in the party was proceeding despite minor hitches.
He said that Governor Kwankwaso and his predecessor, Alhaji
Ibrahim Shekarau, were already working together as members of the same party.
“What we are trying to do now is to find a way of
accommodating their followers within the leadership structure of the state
chapter of the party,” he said.
In Benue State, a new faction of APC led by Baba Agan also
emerged yesterday, accusing Senator George Akume of imposing unpopular officers
on the party.
Agreeing that the status of Oyinlola in Osun was not clear,
he denied reports in a section of the media that the party’s reconciliation
efforts in Adamawa State had collapsed following Gen. Buba Marwa’s refusal to
attend a meeting to which he was invited alongside incumbent Governor Murtala
Nyako.
However, sources close to Gen. Marwa have dismissed Tumza’s
statement that the recent reconciliation meeting in Adamawa ended smoothly. One
source said that Gen. Marwa is not interested in holding any meeting with
Governor Nyako for now.
Said the source: “Gen Marwa has dismissed the idea of
holding any meeting with Governor Nyako as nonsense. He is actually waiting for
the national leadership of the party to intervene and settle the matter.”
Dismissing the five PDP governors who defected to APC as
political lightweights who have no followers in the APC, the source asked: “How
do they think they can come from no-where to take over structures of the party
which have been built over time?”
It would be recalled that APC had set up the reconciliation
committee led by former National Chairman of nPDP, Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, in a
bid to ensure that internal rancour does not erupt within its ranks.
The committee has commenced the process of reconciling the
warring parties in the five states, where the G-5 governors are locked in a
supremacy battle with local leaders of the party.
It was learnt that as part of the party’s effort to
harmonize its affairs in the affected states, the National leadership approved
the inauguration of interim state executive committees.
The party, at its last meeting in Abuja, gave approval for
all the zonal chairmen to immediately inaugurate the interim state executives
and for them to commence mobilisation for new members. It also proposed a plan
to hold the party’s congresses this month.
It was learnt that following a directive to the committee by
the interim national executive of the party to commence action immediately
after the Christmas holiday, the seven-man reconciliation committee has decided
to also look into the protest letter submitted by some stakeholders in Kano
In Kano, the task of harmonizing APC executive was handed
over to Governor Kwankwaso by stakeholder last week.
And what made the former Governor Ibrahim Shekarau look like
a prisoner of war in the dirty political war in Kano played out last week
following the massive endorsement of Kwankwaso as the undisputed leader by
erstwhile loyalists of Shekarau.
The five governors who recently defected from the PDP to the
APC have said that they did not go to the new party to become leaders in their
respective states.
Rather, the governors said they took their decision in an
altruistic move to provide Nigerians with a viable opposition platform that
could check the current drift towards anarchy in the polity.
The governors, who spoke through their Adamawa counterpart,
Murtala Nyako, explained that contrary to insinuations by the opposition, they
moved over to the APC to join forces with other patriots to form a pan-Nigerian
national platform that would serve as a veritable vehicle for the enthronement
of genuine unity, peace and progress in Nigeria.
Nyako said in a statement made available to Vanguard by his
Director of Press and Public Affairs, Mr. Ahmad Sajoh, that at the time they
moved to the APC they had other options, which they would have exploited if
they were propelled by selfish interests.
Among the several options open to the five governors, were
forming a new political party, joining any of the newly-formed parties or any
of the existing political parties in Nigeria.
“But we opted to join the APC because it represents a
broad-based coalition of democratic forces built on the ideals of progress and
development,” Nyako said.
“Governor Murtala Nyako believes that it is only by the
coming together of progressive forces that Nigeria will be saved from the grip
of a cabal that has held the presidency captive and has continued to provide
excuses for countless failures rather than advance ideas on the provision of
dividends of democracy to the people of Nigeria.”
“This cabal has unwittingly reduced arguments about the
future of Nigeria to non issue such as ethnicity and religious bigotry. Under
such circumstances, the progress of the nation has stagnated, leadership focus
has become clannish and mediocrity has taken over serious business of
government.”
“These are the real challenges before all patriots and these
are the motives behind the move by the G5 governors and all other patriotic
forces in the National Assembly and other sections of the polity.
“Anyone who reads the statement issued by the PDP leadership
on Sunday, January 5, 2014 should definitely appreciate the real dangers these
unpatriotic forces want to unleash on the country.
The Governor said he had no political ambition other than to
see that Nigeria is driven on the path of progress and economic prosperity.
“As a two-term Governor, I am constitutionally excluded from
the next gubernatorial election, and I have already stated that I have no
ambition to contest any other political office in 2015. All I am concerned with
is to serve as a statesman who promotes the best interest of future generations
of Nigerians,” Nyako said.
Source: Vanguard
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