....... Until recently the APC had 16 Governors who describe themselves as The Progressive Governors. They are made up of the original Merging Parties Governors and the break away PDP Governors who as a group are determined to take control of the Party. This composition of Merging Party Governors and PDP breakaway Governors cannot in any realistic sense be described as PROGRESSIVE. They have come together with different personal agendas built around the central purpose of acquiring National Power. Some of them nurse Vice Presidential ambition and some others are warming up for the Presidential contest. In the circumstance the project of taking control of the Party’s National machinery became crucial and it was out of the Governor’s caucus that the plan of zoning the National offices was initiated and concluded. The Interim Executive Committee had no input. Although it is claimed that the National Chairmanship slot was zoned to the South South, the horse-trading to produce the beneficiary took place outside the zone. In order to secure the agreement of most of the Governors I understand that an agreement was extracted from Chief Oyegun that he would agree to step down as Chairman should a Governor from the region emerge as either Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate. And although the Governors may not have envisaged the present set back they now suffer in their numerical strength the battle to take custody of the APC platform that they waged against the Tinubu structure signaled yet another twist in the tale.- Ikimi
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:19:07 +0000
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