Strong indications emerged, yesterday, that the Senate will receive the ministerial list from President Muhammadu Buhari tomorrow or Wednesday.
Ahead of the submission of the Ministerial list by President
Buhari, National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John
Odigie-Oyegun has summoned an emergency meeting of the National Working
Committee, NWC, for today.
According to a source, besides discussing the proposed
ministerial list, the party leadership will brainstorm on the multiple crises
rocking it.
Some of the issues to be discussed include the management of
the party’s success, the power rift between the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
and Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, among others.
The source noted that the crises in APC, especially the
management of the party’s success at the March 28 presidential and National
Assembly and the April 11 governorship elections was becoming a big headache
for members, just as members are worried that the crisis was affecting the
smooth running of governance with Nigerians being at the receiving ends.
Speaking with journalists yesterday, a top member of the
party’s NWC noted that apart from the crisis, the meeting will also dwell on
the ministerial list that has put the party against President Buhari, who seems
not to be interested in consulting officials of the party in the appointment of
the members of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, and the power rift between
the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, former governor of Osun State, Bisi
Akande and the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu.
According to the NWC member, the crisis between the
chieftains of APC has stalled the inauguration of the party’s Board of
Trustees, BoT, as well as holding of the National Executive Committee, NEC,
meeting.
Agenda
Listed for discussion at today’s meeting, the source said,
would be the power rift between Osinbajo and el-Rufai, who is perceived as the
‘unofficial Vice President’.
It was gathered that el–Rufai made an uncomplimentary remark
on the Vice President, to which Osinbajo was said to have protested and
eventually walked out of the said meeting in the presence of President Buhari.
It was also gathered that prior to his storming out of the
meeting, the angered Osinbajo told Buhari: “I am an elected Vice President and
would not sit down here and allow a governor to insult me.”
According to the NWC member, the leadership of APC was not
comfortable with this development and was determined not to sit down and watch
the Vice President and being treated as a puppet.
… of Tinubu, Saraki
Also to be discussed at the meeting is the seeming feud
between APC national leader and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu and the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki.
The chieftain said: “Why must there be preferential
treatment and separate rules? Whereas, Tinubu was acquitted for non- compliance
with section 3 (D), the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, is
insisting on Dr. Abubakar Saraki standing trial for an issue that the former
Lagos State governor was acquitted and the suit struck out.”
Also to be discussed is the media war between Governor Adams
Oshiomhole of Edo State and the former governor of Bayelsa state, Timi Sylva.
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