Admin l Monday, April 09, 2018
LAGOS, Nigeria – President Muhammadu Buhari’s overtures to national leader of the All Progressive Congress(APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwanso, President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki can only be interpreted as part of the President’s despiration to return to power, a chieftain of APC in Kano State, Engineer Muazu Magaji has said.
Magaji said that the President abandoned the APC shortly after he emerged as President adding that there was delibrate effort on the part of the Presidency to whittle down the power of the axis controlled by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu(the Action Congress, AC) hence most of the political appointees were made from the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, solely owned and controlled by the President which later fused into the All Nigerian Peoples Party, ANPP.
He said the President completely abandoned Tinubu until recently when he needed him. He said that Tinubu has agreed to support him, but that he has also given condition for support ahead of the 2019 election and that after the election some of the things that needed to be done to strengthen the party for democratic development was not done. He said the last convention held by the APC was the convention that produced Buhari but that government did not see the need until recently based on the feeling that a convention at a time very close to the election could create voice of descent which will be counterproductive to the coming election.
He said that although the President is making overtures to politicians he has offended in is party, the reality remains that politicians do not forget easily, and wondered what would happen as soon as he emerges given his antecedants after the 2015 general election.
Magaji who spoke on Political Platform on Raypower on Monday, said that the President may be able to salvage the situation before the 2019 and be able to return with a narrow margin if he is able to assuage frayed nerves but that what has happened is for political party leaders not to take their luck too far.
