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2023: Buhari’s Dictatorship Tears APC Apart Ahead Of National Convention

 

  


 

 

The division in the All Progressives Congress (APC) deepened at the weekend after some key party members alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari has single-handedly dictated the composition of the next Executive Committee of the party.

 

APC has been bogged down with its chieftains joslting for who controls the incoming leadership of the party and by implication who has the upper hand in deciding the party’s next presidential flagbearer. 

 

President Buhari has avoided formally naming or endorsing successor but handpicking the APC Executive Committee will enable him single-handedly to decide who runs to succeed him on the party’s ticket. 

 

Documents sighted by our correspondent showed that President Buhari personally endorsed all the plans and choices of candidates presented to him by a clique in the party that is reportedly made up of some northern state governors and ministers in his cabinet.  

 

The documents showed that the president has signed off on Senator Abdullahi Adamu as National Chairman, Senator John Akpanudoedehe from the south-south geopolitical zone as National Secretary, and Senator Ken Nnamani from the south-east as Deputy National Chairman (South).  The president also signed off on other positions that have been pinned down to geopolitical zones. 

 

A source in the Kaduna State Government House, who craved anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed the document saying that “Baba (President Buhari) endorsing the zoning formula and the candidate has closed any further debate on the matter.

 

“People will make noise even if it is their own brother that is given this position. So, someone must make decisions to end some of this back and forth at some point,” he said. 

 

Analysis of the documents showed that the President first endorsed a set of documents setting out zoning arrangements on February 1, 2022 while he endorsed Adamu and others on February 25, 2022.

 

A party chieftain opposed to the arrangement lamented that a bad precedent has been set to weaken Nigeria’s democracy.

 

He stressed that “President Buhari has the right as the party’s de facto leader to show the direction the party should go, but this aspect of one person sitting in a parlor and constituting the APC EXCO is bad news for democracy in Nigeria. This is dictatorship baring its fangs and we cannot afford the luxury of silence. 

 

“What is the essence of wasting time and resources on an elective national convention if the president and a couple of governors have constituted the exco in their spare time? We will challenge this legally,” he declared.

 

Another chieftain expressed worry that President Buhari could have verbally directed those he wanted to be elected to the exco without committing ink to paper the way he did.

 

According to the chieftain from the northwest of the country, “I have seen the documents and my own worry is that the President should not have gone to the extent of appending his signature to the papers. This is the same signature he uses to conduct matters of the state and to now contemplate the same signature on documents that amount to illegality is demystifying the office of the President.”




 

 

 

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