APC crisis: Party demands apology from Saraki, Dogara

Date: 2015-06-20

Although some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress, APC have initiated moves to reconcile the aggrieved camps and bring back peace in the party, its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not yielding to it until his conditions are met.

Vanguard exclusively gathered yesterday that Tinubu who felt greatly slighted by the elections of Senator Bukola Saraki and Rep. Yakubu Dogara as the senate president and the Speaker, House of Representatives respectively against the party's official candidates, Senator Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabimila had said of what can assuage his anger and that of the party.

A competent party source told Vanguard in Abuja that principal among the conditions is that both Saraki and Dogara must tender and publish a full page apology publicly using the national dailies.

To this end, the source hinted that an extended meeting of the national leaders of the party with APC governors involved had been slated for next week. The meeting, it was learnt, would hold either Monday or Tuesday.

"You don't joke with the man (Tinubu). He said they must make a public apology to him using the newspapers. A meeting that will involve all APC governors has been scheduled to hold either on Monday or Tuesday. Wait and see what will happen. They have to do it", the source said.

It was not ascertained whether president Mohmmadu Buhari would be at the meeting but Saraki and Dogara are expected to be at the meeting.

It will be recalled that after the National Assembly leadership that brought Saraki and Dogara as the new leaders of the 8th assembly, tempers have continued to flare up in the party.

Upon their elections on June 9, APC immediately issued a statement where it declared the outcome of the elections unacceptable and also threatened sanctions for the new leaders.

The threat however divided the party with some of the national leaders frowning at the decision.

One of the them was the deputy national publicity secretary, comrade Timi Frank who also called for the resignation of the party's national chairman, chief John Oyegun on the grounds of his failure to harmonize the variegated interests that later cost the party the office of the Deputy Senate President, DSP.

According to Frank, Oyegun compromised to have agreed to conduct the mock election that threw up Lawan and Gbajabimila as official candidates of the party. Meanwhile, national chairman of the party, Oyegun has assured Nigerians that peace was underway in the party.

Rising from the meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC which held at party's national secretariat in Abuja yesterday, the chairman said that the party had reached out to all aggrieved parties, stressing that Nigerians would see a united APC by next week.

He also marshalled out defence for the party's national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who he said had been misunderstood in some quarters while discharging his responsibilities.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Otunba Taiwo Joseph     MMWG     Olateju Lukman     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Victor Gbenga Yusuf     Yusuf Ali     Jamiu Oyawoye     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     ITP     Edu     Ilorin Like-Minds     Twitter     Offa Descendants Union     Bilikisu Gambari     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Donatus Ejidike     Magaji Nda     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Muhammadu Gobir     Eleyele     Kolo     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Transition Implementation Committee     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Gbugbu International Market     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     AGILE Programme     Yakub Lai Gobir     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Bashirat Bola Bello     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     S.O. Opowoye     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Yaman     Gbenga Adebayo     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Ijagbo     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Bareke     Musa Alhassan Buge     Sobi Hill     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Alikinla     Oko Erin     Atunwa     Saad Omo\'ya     Oyun     Oba Of Jebba     Kisira     Abdulkareem Alabi     Teachers Specific Allowance     Yusuf A. Usman     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Toyin Abdullahi     Guber Aspirant     Ayo Salami     Amuda Musbau     Eruku     RTEAN     Kayode Laro     UITH     Azeez Salawu     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Quran     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Salman Jawondo     Olaitan Adefila     NTA Ilorin     ASMAU PLAZA     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Okanlawon Taiwo     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Dairo Kunle Paul     Diagnostic Centre     Nigeria Foundation For Artificial Intelligence     Kaiama     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Babata     Moses Rahman Popoola     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Summit University     Bisi Oyeleke     Ahman Pategi University     Ilorin.Info     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Idris Amosa Saidu     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     High Court     Idowu Laro     Atiku     Baba Issa Awoye     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     United Nigeria Airline     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Dele Momodu     Prince Bola Ajibola     Kannike     Ile Arugbo     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Amos Bajeh     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     UTME     Saad Belgore     Mansur Alfanla     Issa Manzuma     Raymond Olaitan     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Read With Me     Osuwa     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Patience Jonathan     Ado Bayero     Kwara State Governor     Bukola Ajikobi     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Oyin-Zubair     Tope Daramola     Adekunle David Dunmade     Niyi Ogundiran     Gurei     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Ayinde Oki     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Bilikis Oladimeji     Universal Basic Education Commission     Tunde Saad     Yusuf Arowosaye     Yaman     Plat Technologies     Ilorin South     Ibrahim Bio     Gamji Members Association     Smart School     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Alimi     Muhammad Yahya     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     Ibrahim Taiwo     Bank Of Industry     Yakubu Danladi     John Obuh