APC Governors Move to Take Over the Party from Powerful Men

In politics anything can happen. The battle for
the control of the structure of the All
Progressives Congress is set to take a dramatic
twist. This followed a decision by the Rochas
Okorocha-led Progressive Governors Forum, to
install the Sokoto State Governor, Aliyu Wamakko
and Senator Chris Ngige as chairman and
secretary of the National Convention Planning
Committee.
It was gathered the National Executive Council
meeting of the party held in Abuja, on Tuesday,
was designed to throw up Kawu Baraje and
Senator Ajayi Boroffice, as chairman and
secretary of the committee, but the 16 governors
played a fast one on the party leaders.
A source at the meeting stated that: “What
happened earlier on Tuesday is a clear
message that the party is gradually
returning to the real owners - the people.
The APC, as a political platform, like we
said from the beginning, is a platform which
the Nigerian people will own and call their
own.”
But the Interim National Publicity Secretary of
the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, dismissed the
information as false. He said those who did not
wish the party well were behind speculations of a
rift within the party.
In his words, “It’s not true, Asiwaju never
proposed anybody. He did not preside over the
meeting, as a matter of fact; he wasn’t even
there when the convention committee was being
sorted out. Some people are just trying to plant
stories to create disaffection within the party.”