Buhari moves to resolve APC crisis

Ahead of the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the APC scheduled to hold tomorrow (Friday) President Muhammadu Buhari has initiated peace moves to resolve the lingering crisis in the party.

The ruling party had been embroiled in crisis since the election of National Assembly leadership, which did not go the way the party intended. The NEC meeting will be the first open meeting between President Buhari and the Senate president Bukola Saraki, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara.

Both presiding officers are automatic members of the NEC and the belief in the party is that it would be inconvenient for the President and the party to enter the NEC meeting with two of their leading members being treated as rebels.

The peace moves were however, almost derailed when the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) came out of its shell to blast the erstwhile interim national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande over his depiction of the APC crisis as a conspiracy against the Yoruba.

The northern social-cultural organisation flayed Akande, a former governor of Osun of diminishing his status as an elder statesman by his assertions.

Akande in a response said that he would not respond to those who hold an exaggerated interpretation of his words.

The peace offensive was being led by President Buhari, who according to sources, had been persuaded that combative actions of the party towards reversing the elections of presiding officers and principal officers of the National Assembly cannot be achieved through democratic or parliamentary means.

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In that effort, the President, it was learnt, was last night locked in a meeting with a 30-man delegation of APC lawmakers belonging to the Femi Gbajabiamila group. The progress of the meeting was scheduled to commence at 8.30 p.m.

Sources privy to the arrangement of the meeting told Vanguard that the President would use the opportunity to calm members of the Gbajabiamila group and appreciate their loyalty to the party even as he prepares them to the fact that nothing again can be done to remove their foe, Speaker Dogara from office.

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