Buhari, Tinubu take different positions on APC crisis

It is believed that the delay in resolving the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, may be due to the different positions of President Muhammadu Buhari and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on the matter.

Presidency sources disclosed to Vanguard that the Friday NEC meeting of the party “brought to the open the seeming centrifugal positions of Mr. President and Asiwaju.”

Despite the fact that the President had preached on party supremacy, he is said to be open to the prospect of reconciliation between all the factions involved.

The source said: “At the meeting between the governors and the warring parties that followed the APC NEC parley, Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, was mandated to chair a committee of three that would come up with possible resolutions to the crisis.

“It was an open discussion at the NEC meeting that whereas Mr. President has consistently expressed his dissatisfaction at the truncation of the party’s procedure for the emergence of the leaders of the National Assembly, the position he has since taken has been one of reconciliation and not outright antagonism to the leadership of the National Assembly.”

Tinubu, on the other hand also insists on party supremacy but with a twist. The National Leader of the APC was said to have given two conditions for peace.

One of the supposed conditions put forward by Tinubu was that both Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Speaker Yakubu Dogara “should not be invited to the meeting”.

A top APC member in the know, revealed to Vanguard that: “The second condition he put forward was that in the event that the two leaders of the National Assembly were invited, they should be made to commit to an apology letter to the party.”

“Unfortunately none of these could be achieved. And you should understand. This is a time when members of the party should engage a cohesive mode rather than one that would alienate more members. It is bad enough that we already have a crisis on our hands. To further entrench positions would not be in the interest of the party,” he added.

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