It is a well-known fact that the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Nigeria’s ruling political party, had suffered serious crack during the 2019 general elections. The cracks were occasioned by inability of the then national leadership of the party to patch up the hitherto crisis in most of the party’s controlled states, which necessitated the dissolution of the National Working Committee under the leadership of Adams Oshiomhole and appointed Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni to head the Caretaker/Convention Planning Committee in June 2020.
Mai Mala Buni, who was a former National Secretary of the party is believed to be in possession of inside knowledge of the APC problems being at the helm of affairs of the party.
From June, when Buni took over from Adams Oshiomhole, APC had started regaining grounds and faded popularity resurfaces as almost all the crisis prone states were visited by the committee and eventually met with aggrieved factions. One can boastfully say the outcome of the recently conducted Ondo State governorship election and lots of indicators were that Buni’s committee is bearing the expected successes.
Inspite of the fact that the task of fixing the party’s inflicted crisis is herculean and uneasy, we the genuine faithful and true loyalists of the APC, bear no iota of doubt that Buni’s led leadership is on course to reposition and bring back the lost glory in the party. We are, therefore, satisfied with the steps being taken by Mai Mala Buni and his members.
We, however, observed with concern the way former Sen. Marafa faction of the APC was attacking the resuscitated peaceful cohesion been enjoyed by true party faithful.
Some members of the faction have also started campaigning for Mai Mala Buni to resign from his position. Let me remind them that Mai Mala Buni’s appointment was a decision by President Muhammad Buhari and other executive members of the party. They should therefore redirect the call to Mr. President and not Buni.
We call on patriotic members of the APC to come to their senses and embrace the leadership of Mai Mala Buni in order to remedy the loopholes and to promote APC to enviable position.
Hon. AbdulMalik Zubairu Bungudu (Former Member Bungudu/Maru Fed. constituency)
