APC shuts Tinubu, ACN out of national chairman race

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may have shut the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the legacy party he led into the APC, out of the contest for the party’s national chairman. The contested is being dominated by aspirants from the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) legacy party in the APC led by President Muhammadu Buhari, and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP). The frontline contenders are mainly representatives of CPC bloc.

The leading aspirants around who APC leaders are considering consensus include former Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, Mallam Saliu Mustapha, and Senator Abdulahi Adamu.

The APC governors are divided over who to adopt as consensus candidate for the party’s national chairman before the February 26 national convention for the election of the National Working Committee (NWC) members.

Over the years, the ACN bloc dominated the APC national chairman nominated by Tinubu, being represented Chief Bisi Akande – Interim National Chairman – and Adams Oshiomhole; while in between was Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, though of the ANPP but nominated by Tinubu for the APC national chairman.

Unfortunately, the ACN, which leader, Tinubu, is in the presidential race failed to negotiate the transition of the national chairman to another legacy party in the APC. The ACN lost the APC national chairman because of the accident of Oshiomhole’s violent and dictatorial reign in the leadership of the party.

The violent reign and tyrannical reign led to violent ousting of Oshiomhole as APC national chairman, and the emergence of the APC Caretaker and Extra Ordinary Convention Planning Committee led by Governor Mala Buni of Yobe State as national chairman.

There are insinuations that President Buhari has interest in Al-Makura, the only CPC governor at the time of the APC amalgamation in 2014, in becoming the national chairman. APC governors were said to be in opposition to Al-Makura.