APC convention: How Buhari, governors shared party positions ahead of 2023 poll | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

[FILE] Nigeriaís president Muhammadu Buhari speaks during Nigeriaís ruling political party, the All Progressive Congress, national convention in Abuja, Nigeria, March 26, 2022

Although party stalwarts, including members of the Governor Atiku Bagudu-led Progressive Governor’s Forum , the Senator Ahmad Lawan-led leadership of the National Assembly were left with no option but to buy into President Buhari’s agenda under a consensus arrangement, the development is widely seen as a clear case of imposition of the leadership of the party.

APC governors, who were said to have asked President Buhari to cede the Presidency seat to them in return for their support for Adamu took turns to handpick the candidates of their choices for various positions at the national convention of the party.

Party chieftains argued that Borno State boasts more than enough of government patronage under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration than Bauchi State that has carved a niche as a traditional base of APC after Kano State since 2015 general election. Shittu alleged that there was no consultation before Omisore’s name was announced without election and blamed the leadership of the party in the Southwest for the imposition. He, however, stepped down because of the intervention of Aremo Olusegun Osoba and his “love and respect” for President Buhari.

“People were practically forced to concede and it also belies reasoning why people had to be trucked in from all parts of the country just to affirm candidates. The cost, the time, and risks were completely underrated by the APC. Nigeria can’t experience democracy until parties themselves are democratic.”

The President, who stressed the need for the party to remain strong and united, warned against the conduct of party primaries influenced by moneybags in the party. “We should learn how to resolve our differences without jeopardising our personal relationships and the fate of the party. I want to thank the Progressives Governors’ Forum for heeding to my advice and suggestions in settling the leadership dispute.”

There is no room for false steps. Our first step is to make our party the bastion of internal democracy. If a party is not internally democratic, it cannot offer the country true democracy.

We never trust A P C AGAIN

It's of no interest.

Your party can come out and share this but failed to sympathize with the innocent souls killed in Kaduna, Zamfara, Jos, etc. God is watching and He will soon reply you all...

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