The planned tenure extension of the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) till the end of the year is already generating tension among critical members of the Party.
Some aggrieved members, who confided to newsmen yesterday, lamented that the third tenure extension for the caretaker committee might spell doom for APC or probably be a ploy to erode the confidence some northern politicians have in the leadership of the party when in 2014 they agreed to merge for the purpose of ousting the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in the 2015 general elections.
They argued that the tenure extension plot could be an agenda schemed to enable the PDP present a northern candidate that would win the 2023 presidential election.
The decision is also being contested on the basis that those behind the proposal wanted to arm-twist some founding members of the party ahead of the next general elections or perhaps a northern agenda to scheme the south out of the next presidential race.
Recall that in a recently published interaction with the media, a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development and member of the party, Solomon Dalung considered the development as a clear indication that the party is not organised alongside the tradition of a political movement.
Dalung expressed concern that the current development shows that the ruling party might have personified the individuals over and above its manifesto, which according to him is evidence of the fact that the party’s cohesion is internally weak.
He lamented the circumstances that led to the dissolution of the National Working Committee due to the litigation against the leadership of the party, saying the dissolution of the NWC did not provide a strong legal foundation for the reformation of the party because a sitting governor emerged as the chairman of a caretaker committee.
Apart from being skeptical about the legality of the caretaker committee, Dalung said he does not see how the current political structure will be able to reposition and unite the party in preparation for the future.
Expressing concern over the situation, a member of the dissolved NWC, who also preferred not to be named, noted that the caretaker committee is an illegality and that its tenure extension an aberration. He said for Buni, who is a serving governor of Yobe State and Governor Gboyega Oyetola, of Osun State, to be in the Caretaker Committee is against the Party’s Constitution.
