Politics
APC challenges force Atiku to a closed-door meeting with Oyegun
Ripples Nigeria gathered that the hour-long closed-door meeting, may not be outside how to resolve the challenges the party has been faced with lately as well as political permutations for 2019.
Atiku, along with the Adamawa state governor, Umar Jubrilla Bindow were at the national secretariat of the party around 12:50pm and made straight to the office of the national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
The trio, it was gathered, had a secret parley for at least 20 minutes before other members of the National Working Committee (NWC), of the party were admitted in.
Party officials were said to have dissuaded Atiku from entertaining media enquiries.
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While the party is still embittered with a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), member as deputy president of the Senate, as Chief Odigie-Oyegun said in a recent interview, there are also cases of in-fighting bewtween its Senators, prominent among which is the Oluremi Tinubu and Dino Melaye altercation which is currently threatening the unity of senators on the party’s platform.
There are also allegations of threats on the office of the president. First it was allegations of military coup and then impeachment.
Also recall that the forgery case against the leadership of the Senate is still boiling and hurting internal cohesion of the party of the party.
Atiku himslef, not long ago called for the restructuring of Nigeria, a position the presidency, many of his northern counterparts and party members frown at.
By Ebere Ndukwu …
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