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Nigeria - According to National Daily, Invariably, the current imbroglio in the APC is a sort of preparation for the 2019 polls.
It is believed that Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to run for one term alone - a decision which has led to a power tussle between Atiku Abubakar who wants to be president in 2019 and Bola Tinubu who is tipping VP Yemi Osinbajo to succeed the president in 2019.
The power tussle was gathered to have been initiated to reform the APC and make less of a Yoruba party as many northern elders were said to perceive it.
It was gathered that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is leading some former and incumbent governors in the north to wage the new battle in the party against Tinubu in order to secure the party for both President Buhari and other party leaders.
Reports say these APC leaders were consulted by northern leaders who complained that they cannot trust Tinubu with control of the party leadership and the National Assembly.
They recalled the experience when opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly were directed to lock down the Federal Government controlled by the PDP in the Goodluck Jonathan administration by the party leadership, an idea they said, emanated from Tinubu. Northern leaders were said to be perturbed that such person cannot be trusted at the height of power competition in the country and has to be tamed.
Informed sources told National Daily that the northern leaders in the party are actually working on a theory that President Buhari may not contest in the 2019 presidential election as he has purportedly signed an agreement with the party to have just one shot at the presidency.
The feeling among the northern politicians is that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu strategically placed his crony, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to take over from Buhari in 2019. Osinbajo, it will be recalled, was the Justice Commissioner when Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State.
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It is believed that Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to run for one term alone - a decision which has led to a power tussle between Atiku Abubakar who wants to be president in 2019 and Bola Tinubu who is tipping VP Yemi Osinbajo to succeed the president in 2019.
The power tussle was gathered to have been initiated to reform the APC and make less of a Yoruba party as many northern elders were said to perceive it.
It was gathered that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is leading some former and incumbent governors in the north to wage the new battle in the party against Tinubu in order to secure the party for both President Buhari and other party leaders.
Reports say these APC leaders were consulted by northern leaders who complained that they cannot trust Tinubu with control of the party leadership and the National Assembly.
They recalled the experience when opposition lawmakers in the National Assembly were directed to lock down the Federal Government controlled by the PDP in the Goodluck Jonathan administration by the party leadership, an idea they said, emanated from Tinubu. Northern leaders were said to be perturbed that such person cannot be trusted at the height of power competition in the country and has to be tamed.
Informed sources told National Daily that the northern leaders in the party are actually working on a theory that President Buhari may not contest in the 2019 presidential election as he has purportedly signed an agreement with the party to have just one shot at the presidency.
The feeling among the northern politicians is that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu strategically placed his crony, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to take over from Buhari in 2019. Osinbajo, it will be recalled, was the Justice Commissioner when Tinubu was Governor of Lagos State.
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