Tinubu May Emerge APC BoT Chairman, Seems Atiku Is About To Be Ousted

To further placate the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, most forces in the party may have decided to influence his emergence as the chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT of the party, Vanguard gathered yesterday.

The party is due for the constitution of its BoT on June 20, 2015 following the rectification of the process by the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, last week.

NewsWireNGR recalls that party chieftains of the APC had favoured former Vice – President Atiku Abubakar to emerge BOT Chair of the party but all that is about to change with the latest updates.

Tinubu the now chosen one for the position is a big brain behind the formation of APC by the four defunct political parties- Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA- now known as legacy parties, apparently lost out in the power game when his candidates for the Senate Presidency and the Speakership of the House of Representatives were defeated at the National Assembly leadership election.

Speaking in confidence to Saturday Vanguard in Abuja, a party source revealed that the odds favour Tinubu even though a former Vice President, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku is said to be angling for the portfolio.

“He is not likely to contest the position with anyone else. Many people want him for the office”, the source said. As source tells NewsWireNGR that the recent happenings in the National assembly and the role played by Atiku might not favour him.

Also the anonymous source added, “Atiku has his roots in the PDP and only a true leader of the APC can be voted as out BOT chairman”

But even with this, it was also learnt that many people may not be comfortable with Tinubu occupying the office.

They fear that he may use the office to attack most members of the NWC among whom are the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Speaker, House of Representatives, Barrister Yakubu Dogara whose relationship with him has gone awry following the National Assembly leadership election.