Battle For The Soul Of A.P.C. Between The New And Old Members As Well As The G5 Governors Secret Pacts Is Tearing The Party Apart Nationwide.

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.>>>>>

All Is Not Well In APC!

It is a well-known fact that APC has being widely accepted in many states in Nigeria. But despite this wide acceptance, all appears not to be well in the house of the All Progressives Congress. This is because of power sharing and control of the party machinery between the new entrants and the old people who has been in the party since.

When contacted, the Director of Press to Kano State governor, Baba Dantiye, said fears about Kwankwaso’s commitment to working with other leaders were misplaced. In his words:>>>>

Counter Attack! PDP Re-strategizes Against The Opposition---Dele Momodu.

Fellow Nigerians, let me start by sending you my warmest compliments of this special season. It has been one hell of a year for our beloved country and most of us in general. The tempo of politics has nearly reached a crescendo as we meander our way towards the year 2014. Next year promises to be an interesting one already as those masquerades seeking political offices or simply waiting to renew their tenure must unmask eventually.

There would be no hiding place for the goldfish by this time next year...

I have therefore chosen to move beyond the letter writers and their satanic epistles. If they like, they can continue to strip themselves naked in the market place. The chicanery that brought them together is what will scatter them ultimately. A house built with spittle would easily collapse at the fall of the dew.

Truth is, none of the letters truthfully addressed the issues of development. They were letters reeking with personal animosity and rabid vendetta. The common motive was simple and easy to decipher: who controls power and our commonwealth from2015, after the elections? No more, no less.>>>>

Revelations: Tanbuwal Set To Dump PDP Come January 2014

The broom revolution hitting the Nigerian political landscape is yet to come to an end. The negative fortune of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is set to dim even further as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal is set to formally decamp to the leading opposition party in the country, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The leadership of the PDP receives this news as a great shock, because it had earlier in December had extracted a word of commitment from the House leaders that member’s defection will no longer be tenable.

National Mirror gathered that the Sokoto State chapter of the APC has mandated its Tambuwal Local Government chapter to formally present a membership card to the Speaker who has been asked by the state Governor, Aliyu Wamakko to formally declare his stand.>>>

Finally Jonathan Replies OBJ

For more than 10 days now, the Nations polity has been awashed with veriage of the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan. Ever since then, the President has been under pressure to respond to the issues raised in OBJ's letter but all the while the silence from the Presidency implied consent.

 But yesterday, the President broke his worrisome silence, when he called a press conference and read out a lengthy reply to the Ota farmer. To be fair to President Jonathan, he tried to clear the fog on some of the issues, but not without throwing some jabs here and there at the former president.

I captured some, yes, some of the details in the response of the President. He started like this:

“His Excellency Chief Olusegun Okikiola Matthew Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

You must have wondered if I did not know what to reply you after you published what has become your latest act of infamy, in the name of a letter titled “Before it is Too Late” which you wrote to me.

Sir, I must confess that your letter took me unawares. Read the rest here>>>

PDP LATEST: 2 APC Governors Attend Secret Meeting with PDP Governors And Jonathan

Is the defection of five PDP Governors to APC final? well, it appears not to be so. This is so because two APC Governors who earliar defected to APC from the PDP attended a secret peace meeting called by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock presidential villa on Sunday night.

Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State and Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, were surprise guests at a close door meeting called at the instance of President Jonathan at the State House last night. Both Governors belong to the G5 who defected to the opposition APC a month ago.

The meeting began at about 10pm and lasted till the early hours of Monday. 
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PDP Crisi Hittend Under Bamanga: Party Begs Tambuwal Not To Abandon Jonathan

From all indications, if the signs are to be taken seriously, it is now very clear that the PDP may lose its majority in the House of Reps to the APC and this may be followed immediately by Senators once the leadership of the House of Reps is taken over by the APC.

As a result, President Goodluck Jonathan's men and top PDP officials, including Bamanga Tukur, have all been running from pillar to post, trying to convince the Speaker of the House of Reps, Aminu Tambuwal that he is their man and that they are ready to work with him if he could help save the situation. Read more after the cut>>>

I May Contest Presidential Election in 2015... Okorocha

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday spoke on his political future, hinting that he might take another shot at the presidency in 2015.

The governor, who spoke during a media chat with reporters at the Government House, Owerri, however, said there were pressures from his people that he should run for a second term to complete his projects.

He said having had a shot at the Presidency, the present political situation and the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC) might boost his chances of clinching the presidential seat.

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