The formation of All Progressives Congress during the buildup to 2015 general election can best be described as necessity by opposition and disgruntled members of the then ruling party that tagged themselves New Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) to wrestle power from Goodluck Jonathan. The party is an assemblage of strange bedfellows, only united by opportunistic ego but common interests.
The seed of instability bedeviling the APC was immediately sown just after the swearing in of Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 when the power brokers in the party failed to agree on post sharing agreement, which eventually culminated into National Assembly leadership tussle between the party, the president, the party supported current National Assembly leadership and their predecessors spiraling into who succeeded Buhari after his tenure.
The outcome of which the party has failed woefully to manage for the past seven years has turned into full blown crisis where it has no board of trustees talk less of internal governance structure. Three chairmen have come and gone, but the party still retains scores of old and new disgruntled members who are likely to scuttle the chances of the party in coming 2023 election.
The crisis took a new twist last week with the removal of the chairman of the party caretaker committee and just like a Yoruba proverb, the same cane that was used to beat the two previous chairman of John Oyegun and Adam Oshiomhole is currently being unleashed on Mai Mala Buni.
Buni who is currently serving as the governor of Yobe state was temporary recruited to salvage the crisis rocking the party. Two years on, the messiah has been booted out by his power brokers for abuse of power. He was accused of stalling the convention of the party which has been shifted three times before the march 26 new date.
The APC travail is inherent in the fact that nobody is in control since the formation of the party, and President Muhammadu Buhari lack the will to exert his authority over the control of the party.
The signs for the party going into the next year election is not looking good as Buni’s loyalists are threatening to challenge his removal in court. Doing so will ultimately put the party at the disadvantage as the party future look bleak.
As it is in the formation, it is still in the present.
