Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works and chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has implored President Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the leadership crisis threatening to divide the party, IgbereTV reports
Ogunlewe made this assertion on Friday.
According to him, “APC is a new party, so to speak, and running a big political party requires experience and sound leadership. The buck stops with President Buhari and he should not allow it to disintegrate due to contending forces looking to hijack the party.”
Ogunlewe further explained the travails bedevilling the party’s Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) whose leadership is under limbo as Governor Sani Bello of Niger State seeks to oust Mai Mala Buni of Yobe from the helm of affairs.
“Combining the two functions, the CECPC and National Working Committee, NWC in charge of the convention, is a clash of interests. They should appoint a neutral person who isn’t a governor and must be in an acting capacity pending the National Convention. This is the problem Buni faced — the dual role is very impossible to actualise.
“An acting National Chairman and Secretary can continue once he is appointed by the NWC. The National Convention is not that compulsory in the grand scheme of things but it should be guided by the Electoral Act. The existence of the APC depends on the President who must sort the issues,” Ogunlewe stated
