Kogi State Senator, Smart Adeyemi, on Thursday, said that
the crisis in the All Progressives Congress, APC, was being generated by those
who have interests to protect.
The lawmaker stated this while insisting that he and his
colleagues in the National Assembly were not told that President Muhammadu
Buhari had sanctioned the sack of the Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee,
Mai Mala Buni.
There are beliefs in some quarters that Buni was pushed out
in order to ensure that the APC’s delayed national convention goes on as
planned in March.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Senator
Adeyemi’s re-echoed pro-Buni sentiments.
“There was a letter written by Mai Mala Buni saying that he
was travelling. And in that letter, he did transmit power to the Governor of
Niger State,” Senator Adeyemi said.
“As far as we are concerned in the Senate, we are not aware
that Mr President gave a marching order to the acting Chairman to vacate his
office,” he added.
Senator Adeyemi said the controversy was generated by people
who have “one interest or the other to protect.”
Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State had, on
Wednesday, insisted that it was President Buhari who instructed Governor
Abubakar Bello of Niger State to take over the leadership of the APC.
This was after Bello declared himself the acting National
Chairman of the ruling party last Monday.
El-Rufai said Buni cannot return as the Chairman of the
Caretaker Committee of the party because Buhari had already given Bello the
green light to function in that position.
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