APC Crisis Deepens, As Police Take Over Secretariat; Secretary Debunks Sack Of Mai Buni

By Akinwale Kasali

The Crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken a new twist.

The APC National Secretariat on Blantyre street, Abuja, has been sealed by Security Operatives. No reason has been adduced for this. But  the National Secretary of the Party, Dr James Akpanudoedehe, has debunked the story of the sack of Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State as the  Chairman of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee

Akpanudoedehe described the report as fake news urging members of the public to disregard it.

He said:

“Our attention has been drawn to sponsored media reports on an imaginary leadership change in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). The media report is fake news and should be disregarded”

“The APC is a progressive political party guided by rules. Leadership changes are not announced by ‘sources’ through name- dropping in the media”

“We urge our teeming supporters, members and indeed the general public to remain calm and support the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led APC CECPC conduct a rancour-free and credible National Convention deserving of our great party”

It would be recalled that shortly before President Muhammadu Buhari embarked on his Two Weeks Medical Leave to London, United Kingdom, the strong rumour surfaced he  had signed that Mai Buni should be sacked as the caretaker Committee Chairman, of the APC.

Mala Buni who has been in the saddle for over a year was, allegedly, replaced by Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Bello as Sole Administrator pending the APC Convention scheduled to take place on  March 26, 2022.

The rumour was that the sack of Governor Buni were as a result of the inability of the Committee to hold a National Convention and the politicking that has been playing out since his acting in that capacity which further polarized the Party and plunged it into crisis.

The Yobe State Governor is presently out of the country. He travelled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates on a medical trip.

Sources revealed to this news medium that

as at Sunday night that the Presidency and the APC governors were perturbed at Buni’s conduct and collusion with a few colleagues to undermine the interest of the APC.

“Buni as the caretaker Committee Chairman had been on a rollercoaster mission piloting the affairs of APC with no proper focus for almost two years after the former Chairman Adams Oshiomhole was fired through the courts,” a source  said.

He continued:

“Buni had, without end, failed to conduct the party’s convention after several postponements making the party to remain in an oscillating mode till date.

“The positive move he made as caretaker Committee Chairman was the party’s registration of members that almost led to a disaster.”

A faction of the APC Governors was alleged to have complained bitterly to the President that Buni was not inclined to holding the convention as rescheduled, because there were no preparations on the ground to indicate so.