Intrigues Within APC Top Echelon As Group Marches Against Cabal

A group of protesters purported to be backed by one of the many splinter groups of the All Progressives congress, APC, has staged a peaceful protest against the Cabal-people who allegedly hold sway  and purportedly hold the Presidency to ransom.

They had taken their grievances to the Defense House-an indication of their belief that Military hold the power to effect a change as what was described Tuesday as a “balancing cabal”. They did not march to Aso rock, the seat of the Presidency.

It will be recalled that Aisha Buhari had, before the election campaigns, announced that two or three people have hijacked the presidency, and that Buhari could have achieved more if not for their influence. She did not name the people.

But this Magazine had named the people as Mamman Daura, a relation of the President,Isa Funtua, a very influential business man, and the former Chief of staff, Aba Kyari. Funtua was alleged to have been behind the re- appointment of Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor.

The marchers named the trio as the fulcrum of the cabal.

Aisha had lamented that Nigerians beg for favors from these men.

But rumors are rife that the group may have been prodded by unseen hands, but are but a pawn in the hands of those fighting the cabal for their own gain, who are entrenching their own machinaries towards 2023 Presidency. Analysts indicate that the triumphant entry to Lagos and the speaker of the House Femi Gbajabiamila bowing to the Ahmed Tinugu, in a recent viral video, may have been a signal that the cabal is up against a growing and formidable power block.

The battle for supremacy, which has raged silently, is gradually bursting into the open. In a compromise move, the cabal had decided to sacrifice Aba Kyari, replacing him with another. This Magazine had reported that a section of the Cabal was eying Adamu Adamu, former minister of Education, though it is becoming clearer that another Adamu, who worked with Farida Waziri, Former INEC boss, in Africonsortium, the engine house of Buhari’s former Petroleum Trust Fund, PTF deals, was put forward by Daura. He was the immediate past minister of Water Resources.

This was partly the reason for the reorganization of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC hierarchy, sources say.

But the Tinubu Group, it was said, wants the influence of the three totally whittled, so his Presidential ambition can scale true. They are seen as the main stumbling block to him. They allegedly see the compromise as too little too late.