There seems to be another crack within the National Executive Council, NEC of the All Progressives Congress, APC ahead of the May 24, 2014 National Convention.
According to sources who are privy the emerging leadership crisis, there is unease amongst the ranking members of the party over who becomes the substantive national chairman of the APC and this is not unconnected to the coming contest for the presidential ticket in 2015.
While Ahmed Bola Tinubu and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari favour returning Chief Bisi Akande, the party’s Interim National Chairman as the substantive national chairman, another group led by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is surprisingly rooting for the emergence of Tom Ikimi, the man who chaired the merger committee and supervised the successful union of the legacy parties into APC and both camps are said to be keeping their options open with a Plan B still in the offing.
The source revealed that the Atiku's group's plan B is Ogbonnaya Onu, former Abia State governor and the former national chairman of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, while that of Tinubu's camp is Sam Sam Jaja, Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s ally as their preferred candidate for the national chairmanship of the party.
The source added that it is more likely that Tinubu’s group will triumph at the end of the day, especially with the backing of the governors of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, who are Tinubu’s protégés.
This arrangement, according to the source, has left some governors feeling left out. For instance, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has never hidden his displeasure since he discovered the high wired intrigues played by the party, which has left him and his zone totally removed by the party’s reckoning.
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