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Oshiomhole, Tambuwal head panels on APC crisis

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The All Progressives Governors’ Forum has named two different peace committees headed by Governors Adams Oshiomhole (Edo) and Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto) to resolve the crisis in the party over the new leadership of the National Assembly.

The peace committee headed by Oshiomhole is to work out a plan for the reconciliation of the party’s senators, while Tambuwal, who is the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, is expected to work out a peace plan that would be acceptable to all sides in the House.

The setting up of the committees was the highlight of a meeting last Friday at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge, in Abuja, between the governors of the ruling APC and Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara, Senator Ahmed Lawan, and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila.

Chairman of the APCGF, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, told journalists after a meeting of the governors, that the party was now united again as the rowing groups had agreed to work together. He added that details of the peace plan would be revealed this week.

Both committees have already commenced work and it was gathered that while the Senate has concluded the selection of its principal officers in contravention of the APC directive, that of the House, which is still pending would be resolved amicably.

Sources at the meeting revealed that Tambuwal was chosen to meet with the feuding parties in the lower chamber and produce a solution because of his experience and knowledge of workings in the House.

The source added both Speaker Dogara and his main challenger, Gbajabiamila, accepted the mediation of Tambuwal. Similarly, Saraki, who was also present, said he did not object to Tambuwal heading the committee.

It was further gathered that most of the governors present at the meeting favoured Gbajabiamila’s emergence as House Leader, though they acknowledged the need to allow Dogara make input in the choice of members of principal officers.

Meanwhile, the crisis of confidence between the North and South-West caucuses of the APC may be far from over as it emerged at the weekend that the latter is likely to continue to boycott activities of the party at the national level to protest alleged marginalisation of the zone’s interest in the selection of principal officers of the National Assembly.

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The party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the entire South-West caucus, including the six state chairmen in the zone and former interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, had boycotted Friday’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja, in what has been described as the height of the bickering in the party.

Already, there are speculations that APC members in the zone are planning to pull out of the party over alleged injustice being meted out to them despite playing a major role in the formation of both the party and the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari at the March 28 presidential election.

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  1. Don Lucassi

    July 5, 2015 at 9:55 am

    Think these are credible enough people to leaf the recovery of the APC. If this fails, I doubt anything else will work

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