Another crises hits APC as they fight over sharing of principal senate offices

President Muhammadu Buhari seems to have been able to justify his position as
the number one citizen of the country having been able to avoid controversies
in his three weeks reign at the top, but this cannot be said of his party, the
ruling All Progressives Congress, which has been tearing itself apart ever since
the new democratic era began on May 29, 2015.
The APC has refused to learn from the errors of the Peoples Democratic Party
and it is not surprising that the PDP now believes that they can reclaim the
presidency during the 2019 presidential election. Following their disastrous
showing during the National Assembly elections few weeks ago, everybody
had thought that the APC would have work out modalities to remedy the
situation in order to avoid future occurrence; but, it appears we were all
wrong.
The APC is once again in trouble, and even though people are optimistic that
the party will not disintegrate, one wonders when the crisis rocking the party
will eventually come to an end. The latest crisis is being fueled by the
disagreement within the party over the sharing of principal offices in the
Senate; namely, the Senate Leader, the Deputy Senate Leader, the Chief Whip
and the Deputy Chief Whip.
According to The Punch, it is believed that the President of the Senate, Bukola
Saraki, have recommended to the APC National Working Committee that the
positions be allocated to the zones, but some leaders of the party, especially
those from the South-West, want them filled by the party’s hierarchy.
A Senator from the North-Central, who is loyal to Saraki, confirmed the
development on condition of anonymity. He said, “By the Senate tradition, the
party in majority normally sends the offices to the zones where the Senate
caucuses would meet and choose among themselves in the zone, who
occupies the offices.
“Some other leaders of the party are claiming that asking the party to produce
the principal officers was a smart way to impose the Senate Leader, the
Deputy Senate Leader, the Chief Whip and the Deputy Chief Whip on the
Senate.”
The senator claimed that a “very influential leader of the party from the
South-West had allegedly written Odigie- Oyegun that the leaders would fill
the positions.”
Spokesperson for the Senate Unity Forum, a group of senators loyal to Lawan,
Kabir Marafa, argued that the choice of other principal officers who are not
elected on the floor of the Senate, remained the sole business of the party
leadership.
He said, “How can the executive of the party at the zonal levels determine
who will be made the Senate Leader, the Deputy Senate Leader, the Chief
Whip and the Deputy Chief Whip?
“It is the party executive that would determine all these. So the party would
write the Senate President. That is the tradition. It cannot be done at the
zonal level, it is absurd. There should be due process in whatever things we
do.”
From the latest crisis within the APC, it appears the party is not ready to rule
the nation without finding itself involved in one crisis or another. These
incessant crisis may be serving as encouraging sighs to the opposition party,
PDP, who must be plotting now great avenues to capitalize on them.
May God help us in Nigeria oooooo(AMEN)

Posted by Solihmary on Sunday, June 21, 2015 - Rating: 4.5

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