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SOUTH-WEST governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu are in a last-meeting rapprochement ahead of the national convention of the party fixed for Saturday, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively reveal.

The move, according to party sources, is to downplay the intrigues and power play among them which could deny them the prized slot of national secretary zoned to the zone. Investigation revealed that among the APC governors in the region, only two enjoy a warm relationship with the former Lagos State governor and presidential aspirant.


Sources told Sunday Tribune that the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (C) and by extension the Presidency is smarting to ensure that an anointed candidate of the power bloc emerges as the candidate for the office. The sources mentioned the Executive Director, Niger Delta Power Holding, Ife Oyedele, as the choice of the defunct C.

Other contenders for the office are Senator Iyiola Omisore, former Minister of Communications and governorship candidate of the defunct C in Oyo State, Bayo Shittu and Professor Abideen Olaitan Olaiya. While Omisore is from Osun State, the duo of Bayo Shittu and Professor Olaiya are from Oyo State.

Oyedele is from Okitipupa in Ondo South Senatorial district and shares the same defunct C platform with Shittu.

Sources revealed that between Shittu and Oyedele, the C tendency in the APC has since settled for the latter. Oyedele’s ers see his endorsement as a reward, a pay-back period for his loyalty and for President Muhammadu Buhari in his uncertain days of relentless pursuit for the presidency.

The aspirant was a member of the Board of Trustees of the C and Ondo State Coordinator of the Buhari Campaign Organisation when he emerged in 2014 as APC presidential candidate.

The former Ondo State governorship aspirant was the Head of Media and Publicity Committee of Buhari Campaign Council in the state in the run-up to the 2019 presidential election.


The South-West governors have since been informed of plot to ensure that Oyedele makes the Unity List of consensus candidates to be ratified at Eagle Square, venue of the convention.

S/W governors’ last minute move to stop Oyedele

The South-West governors are in frantic move to stop Oyedele, believed to have since enjoyed the blessings of northern governors for the position of the party’s national secretary.


They have endorsed former chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Isaac Kekemeke for the office of national vice chairman, South-West and have agreed to defer to Tinubu’s favoured candidate, Senator Omisore as consensus candidate for national secretary in order to stop the former C stalwart from clinching the strategic position. APC chieftains in the South-West are apprehensive of a situation in which President Buhari will produce both the national chairman and national secretary of the party ahead the presidential convention.

Investigation revealed that another strategic position, the national organising secretary, has been zoned to the North-West, the zone of President Buhari. Meanwhile, former Zamfara State governor, Abdulazeez Yari, at the weekend, insisted that he would run for the office of national chairman of the party.

Checks revealed that by virtue of the zoning arrangement produced by the zoning committee led by the Kwara State governor, Abdulrahman AbdulRazak, Yari is precluded from the contest since he is from the North-West.


The exalted office has been zoned to the NorthCentral states of Kwara, Kogi, Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa and Niger states. Speaking with newsmen, Director General of Yari Campaign Organisation, Tijani Kaura, claimed the position was zoned to the North and not any particular zone in the region.

He said: “Let me say again that we are all aware that the party has zoned national chairmanship to the North and presidency to the South. But we are not aware that there is specific zoning within the geopolitical zones of either the president or the national chairman of the party.

“Nobody indicated whether it is South-West, SouthEast or South-South. The party acting chairman has not come out officially to tell us the chairmanship has been zoned to a particular geopolitical zone. So, that is why we are here.”

https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-convention-south-west-governors-tinubu-battle-buharis-candidate/

Let me say again that we are all aware that the party has zoned national chairmanship to the North and presidency to the South.

Waiting for Ohanaeze to reiterate their useless public statement regarding Tinubu's aspiration in a party they have been insulting and cursing since 2015.

Pdp will soon meet to pick a consensus Northern aspirant and that is their darling party, yet the almajiri and ewedu party is where they are hoping to claim "their turn".

ok

LeoDeKing:
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Waiting for Ohanaeze to reiterate their useless public statement regarding Tinubu's aspiration in a party they have been insulting and cursing since 2015.

Pdp will soon meet to pick a consensus Northern aspirant and that is their darling party, yet the almajiri and ewedu party is where they are hoping to claim "their turn".

Some of you think with your anus.

Where did you see mention of Ohanaeze or Igbo?

Go to school and stop disgracing your sophisticated moronic zone.

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Tradernaija1:


Some of you think with your anus.

Where did you see mention of Ohanaeze or Igbo?

Go to school and stop disgracing your sophisticated moronic zone.

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Here you are, talking about thinking with anus and going to school, yet understanding just 2 paragraph comment is appearing to you like space science.

Give Sen. George AKUME the chairmanship.

EFCC go invite/detain plenty people this month

Game don start oo

So the have now grown balls to go against buharis candidate?, wonders shall never end

On Oyedele mandate sane Nigerians like us stand.

Thunder fire Omisore

And God bless ezigbo Mazi OluwaBuni



They have endorsed former chairman of the APC in Ondo State, Isaac Kekemeke for the office of national vice chairman, South-West and have agreed to defer to Tinubu’s favoured candidate, Senator Omisore as consensus candidate for national secretary in order to stop the former C stalwart from clinching the strategic position.

Lol. All these media people and their sensational news.

Last week one frontline media said Tinubu & Baba Akande are against Omisore and that some SW governors are pushing for Omisore.

This week another media said Tinubu is ing Omisore and other governors against him.

You go fear for Nigeria media walahi. They see Tinubu in their dream and can only sell their paper by inserting his name in the title.

These analysts who always bring issues of Presidency and C must be very ashamed of their unfruitful guessings.
Finally, after all sort of conspiracies Buhari has endorsed fomer PDP member, Abdullahi Adamu who was never predicted by any media house or analyst to be endorsed by PMB and he even rejected the only C former Governor Tanko Almakura.
So we should judge current affairs by our mighty brain rather than following these amateur analysts.
Where are those suspecting Badaru, Bagudu, Buni and Rufai of ganging up against Tinubu?
Today, Bagudu and Badaru are left in confusion with limited choice while Rufai is left alone gasping and battling for his survival in APC. Buni is known as strong ally of Tinubu who started avoiding him since becoming party caretsker Chairman to avoid compromise. Fayemi was played by El Rufai, Bagudu and Badaru.
The Buhari I very well know won't any candidate before primary election directly or indirectly. He who work to win primary election under APC will definitely get his full because PMB won't afford to simply let PDP come back to power again.
Those in Presidency are entitled to their opinions but won't change PMB's opinion especially a this moment when he understood that all of them have personal goals not party goals

Penguin2:
On Oyedele mandate sane Nigerians like us stand.

Thunder fire Omisore

And God bless ezigbo Mazi OluwaBuni

it's not a new thing for igbos to b disgraced so wait for another disgrace again

ArewaNorth:
These analysts who always bring issues of Presidency and C must be very ashamed of their unfruitful guessings.
Finally, after all sort of conspiracies Buhari has endorsed fomer PDP member, Abdullahi Adamu who was never predicted by any media house or analyst to be endorsed by PMB and he even rejected the only C former Governor Tanko Almakura.
So we should judge current affairs by our mighty brain rather than following these amateur analysts.
Where are those suspecting Badaru, Bagudu, Buni and Rufai of ganging up against Tinubu?
Today, Bagudu and Badaru are left in confusion with limited choice while Rufai is left alone gasping and battling for his survival in APC. Buni is known as strong ally of Tinubu who started avoiding him since becoming party caretsker Chairman to avoid compromise. Fayemi was played by El Rufai, Bagudu and Badaru.
The Buhari I very well know won't any candidate before primary election directly or indirectly. He who work to win primary election under APC will definitely get his full because PMB won't afford to simply let PDP come back to power again.
Those in Presidency are entitled to their opinions but won't change PMB's opinion especially a this moment when he understood that all of them have personal goals not party goals

God bless you with this analysis. I agree totally with you.
It's not over until it's finally over. May God preserve our lives beyond 2023

hollah123:
it's not a new thing for igbos to b disgraced so wait for another disgrace again

They are good at ing failures. They win occasionally

ArewaNorth:
These analysts who always bring issues of Presidency and C must be very ashamed of their unfruitful guessings.
Finally, after all sort of conspiracies Buhari has endorsed fomer PDP member, Abdullahi Adamu who was never predicted by any media house or analyst to be endorsed by PMB and he even rejected the only C former Governor Tanko Almakura.
So we should judge current affairs by our mighty brain rather than following these amateur analysts.
Where are those suspecting Badaru, Bagudu, Buni and Rufai of ganging up against Tinubu?
Today, Bagudu and Badaru are left in confusion with limited choice while Rufai is left alone gasping and battling for his survival in APC. Buni is known as strong ally of Tinubu who started avoiding him since becoming party caretsker Chairman to avoid compromise. Fayemi was played by El Rufai, Bagudu and Badaru.
The Buhari I very well know won't any candidate before primary election directly or indirectly. He who work to win primary election under APC will definitely get his full because PMB won't afford to simply let PDP come back to power again.
Those in Presidency are entitled to their opinions but won't change PMB's opinion especially a this moment when he understood that all of them have personal goals not party goals

You have spoken well sir..

It seems the inventors of one chance has entered the one chance they invented , good morning penny wise mentality people

BeeBeeOoh:


https://tribuneonlineng.com/apc-convention-south-west-governors-tinubu-battle-buharis-candidate/

Ok

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LeoDeKing:
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Waiting for Ohanaeze to reiterate their useless public statement regarding Tinubu's aspiration in a party they have been insulting and cursing since 2015.

Pdp will soon meet to pick a consensus Northern aspirant and that is their darling party, yet the almajiri and ewedu party is where they are hoping to claim "their turn".

Ohanaeze shouldn't be the cancer you are presently dying of and moreover, your present frustration and predicament of this contraption is not Ohanaeze Igbo that established it by making your life so miserable, but the so called zones that has produced president since ninety kporogodom.
No Igbo president, no prosperous emerging region, and yet that zone without presidency will always outsmart Nigeria virtually in all though not in politics.

LeoDeKing:
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Here you are, talking about thinking with anus and going to school, yet understanding just 2 paragraph comment is appearing to you like space science.

Face ur front and stop looking for attention. No one has ur time. Carry the presidency on ur head and get lost.

Buhari doesn’t have any means to have his way in the SW. whatever Tinubu and the governors say is the final.

Good

And Tinubu thinks he would win?

Dapson73:






God bless you with this analysis. I agree totally with you.
It's not over until it's finally over. May God preserve our lives beyond 2023

March 26 will reveal wether it's over for Tinubu ambition or not

But with what's on ground, I'm afraid it's over for Tinubu useless ambition