Insists on CPC's Mr Fashakin as the National Publicity Secretary position instead of ACN's Lai Mohammed.want to be the flag-bearer of APC, while Tinubu group want a younger person from the North.
The defeated Candidate of the defunct CPC, a former Head of state and All Progressive Congress (APC) leader, Maj General Mohammed Buhari is embroiled in bitter disagreement with the ACN merger group over his insisting on Rotimi Fashakin for the position of the National Publicity secretary of the APC.
Lai Mohammed who currently is in the position and is favoured by majority of the party members who said that he deserves to remain in the said position, but Buhari is threatening that Fashakin who was the Publicity secretary under his defunct CPC to take over from Lai Mohammed as National Publicity Secretary of the party or he will leave the party.
The APC interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande has been having constant disagreement with Buhari over several party matters, especially with regards to the ideological differences noticed after the merger. The Buhari was angered when he was stopped from answering questions directed to him by the press on several occasions by Akande, all in an attempt to regulate his superiority in the party. Akande told Buhari to call the press conference in his house if he want to declare his interest in the party's Presidential candidate's position.
A repetition of the PDP styled disagreement is what party insiders fear that might happen in APC forthcoming convention to elect the party’s National Working Committee.
Buhari has requested that Fashakin one of his foot soldiers be considered for the position of the party’s National publicity secretary, a request that is said to be opposed by the Tinubu group who sees Lai Mohammed as most suitable for the sensitive position. This scenario appears to have unsettled the party as Buhari’s loyalists insist that Lai should conceal the position to CPC group.
Muhammadu Buhari is uncomfortable as he is seeing his ambition of becoming the party’s flag bearer now hanging in the balance, as the party is considering to pick a younger person from the North, is asking that his trusted ally, Fashakin be considered for the position, or he pulls out of the party as the request was the first major one he had made since the merger became successful.
The party leadership has already arrived at an agreement to retain the service of Lai Mohammed, whom most of them have said was brilliant enough for the job, but Buhari argued that Fashakin was as good as Lai, hence his interest must also be regarded if he must give up his ambition for a younger person, come 2015.
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