Director-General
of the forum of APC Governors, Salihu Lukman has described Thursday
dissolution of the National Working Committee instigated by President Muhammadu
Buhari as a masterstroke by the latter.
At the virtual meeting of the National Executive Committee
held at the Presidential Villa, the APC NWC was dissolved and a 13 man
caretaker/ special convention committee with Yobe state governor, Mallam Mai
Mala Buni as chairman was sworn in.
The DG of the Progressive Governors
Forum in a statement on Friday declared that by that singular
action, President Buhari has finally succeeded in rescuing himself from
certain leaders of the party whom he noted have claimed in recent past that
they have a grip on President Buhari.
Lukman further argued that with the resolution of the
NEC, President Buhari has faulted claim in certain quarters that he was
indifferent to the crises tearing the ruling party apart.
He said: “The fact is, the President was able to discharge
his responsibility as the moral authority of the party because he freed himself
from all the leaders who were the problem. It is only because of that he was
able to see the true picture and accordingly make recommendations that can
solve the problem.
These were recommendations that didn’t defeat anyone but
favour everyone, which confirms the President’s status as ‘belonging to
everybody and belonging to no one’.
This is one attribute that can be said to be unique to this
President. Somehow, this is one attribute that all APC leaders must seek to
imbibe especially those positioning themselves as potential 2023 successors.
If the APC leadership crisis is anything to go by, it
highlights the danger of the shortage of leaders with this unique
attribute.Therefore, part of the challenge before every APC leader is to
develop this attribute.”
In a veiled reference to claim that the
governors have taken control of the party, the Director-General of the Forum
faulted it as he maintained that only President Buhari took the position to
dissolve and constitute the caretaker committee without consultations with the
governors.
“Beyond the recommendations, the ability of the President to
keep these recommendations to himself until the meeting is a critical success
factor.
Were the President to have leaked it to any of the parties in
the leadership conflict, the outcome would have been different, which may
include lobbies to dominate the Convention Working Committee with loyalists and
benefactors to the crisis.
This could even lead to another dispute that may block the
emergency NEC from holding.The element of surprise experienced by members of
the APC-NEC when they received these proposals from President Buhari would have
been a source of relief and therefore made approvals very easy.”
He further urged the newly constituted care-taker committee
to be firm in taking disciplinary against certain members of the dissolved
national working committee who were threatening to institute legal actions
against Thursday resolution of the NEC meeting.
After a week of seeming self-serving
embarrassment, sanity is set to return to the fractured All Progressives
Congress (APC) after a virtual meeting of its statutory organ, the
National Executive Committee (NEC) called at the instance of its national
leader, President Muhammadu Buhari…
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