Against all the odds All Progressive Change Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee has conducted  smooth convention which has produced new National Working Committee of  the party.  Therefore ruling governing party  Caretaker Committee led by Governor Mala Buni has made great achievements and rescued the party from an imminent collapse by  charted a new course.

Despite rancour free convention, but  the convention leave unforgettable painful scar in the mind of one block of legacy party CPC  members for being accorded with undeserved reward for loyalty and humiliation by President. Since the party established two block of the legacy party Action Congress of Nigeria and All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), produced National Working Committee of the party.  Chief Bisi Akande National Chairman of the defunct ACN served as pioneer interim national chairman of the APC, In 2014 former Governor of Edo state, John Oyegun, emerged the chairman of  All Progressives Congress from ANPP block and also  Adams Oshiomhole emerged as the national chairman from ACN. 

Logically ACN produced two chairman while ANPP one and CPC none in fact that members of the defunct CPC were the worst treated since the APC formed. Senator TankoAl-Makura who was only 8 years governor under defunct CPC  indicated interests to contest chairman of the party and  some member of the party with  sense of history, had also been working for the realisation of his aspiration, thinking he had not only had  competent  and capacity, but a moral right to aspire to the office. 

Before the convention held there was two different lists of preferable candidates suffice approved   and duly signed by the president. One list with Adamu Abdullahi name and other  Tanko Almukura but  Abdullahi emerged as a consensus APC national chairman while ditched him  in spite, he  was the only equity,  that Buhari took with him to the negotiating table, and ultimately entitled the CPC partners to a stake in the APC merger.

Days to the National Convention, without any explanation or apology, Buhari woke up and chose a man from the same state and predecessor to Al-Makura; a man, who migrated from the opposition PDP in 2014 at the deterrent of lone CPC governor  as as his choice for party chairman.

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One other block  whose disappointment comes with an eternally painful scar, is defunct  Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)  who’s under it banner president Buhari contested  2011 presidential election. Political and public analyst viewed that had there not been an Al-Makura, President Buhari would not have been able to boast of any entitlement at all, Yet, he didn’t deem it fit to consider him for the office of the chairman of the governing  party,  he knew that the man desired to be in that office.

From many of the loyalists of the president to other stakeholders of the party, no one has been able to understand,  factors that informed the decision of President in ditching Al-Makura.  What a special reward for loyalty! An unusual reward for staying the cause and standing strong for the Buhari brand and ideals,  Al-Makura and mine alike would  never forget that treatment muted to them by Baba Buhari.

Let We Not Forget There is confusion in the polity as two  lawmakers; are now  occupying two elective positions following their emergence as national chairman and deputy national chairman (North) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), respectively. Since their emergence as  members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party tongues are wagging over their seats at the National Assembly. With With regard Section 183 of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999, they have a moral duty to quit with law bar an public servants to retaining another paid employment. They need to choice the path of honour to resign from red chamber  having being elected to the executive of the party.

Dukawa write in from Kano abbahydukawa@gmail.com