The transfer to take away the Nationwide Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, from workplace heightened once more the final week following speculations that President Bola Tinubu could also be contemplating an ambassadorial place for him to go away the nation over his lingering corruption trial.
What began as a mere hearsay quickly gained momentum on social media and on-line publications, with many quoting some undisclosed individuals within the ruling APC and Presidency as their sources.
However some political observers believed the story might need been planted by some get together stalwarts from the North-Central, who had been agitating for the management seat to return to their zone following the exit of Ganduje’s predecessor, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
Recall that suspected thugs attacked and dispersed some members of the North-Central APC protesting in entrance of the get together three months in the past.
The demonstrators had stormed the get together secretariat, chanting solidarity songs and displaying banners that learn ‘Return APC Nationwide Chairmanship to North-Central’ and ‘Dr Ganduje, kindly resign to face your prosecution in Kano.’
Within the wake of the protest, a former APC chairmanship aspirant from the identical area, Muhammad Etsu, filed a authorized injunction to cease Ganduje from parading himself as nationwide chairman.
In response to him, the seat of the get together management ought to be allowed to stay within the North-Central as an alternative of the North-West the NEC zoned it.
Nevertheless, the Deputy Nationwide Organising Secretary of the get together, Nze Chidi Duru, described the hypothesis as ridiculous.
Duru, who spoke to Sunday PUNCH in a interview stated, a change of guard or the arbitrary removing of get together management may trigger instability and upset the apple cart.
He stated, “It is going to be one change of guard too many. There should be stability, even within the administration of get together hierarchy. That could be a wishful pondering.
“I don’t know if that’s how a celebration ought to be run. You can’t run the get together on instability or unstable construction. It gained’t augur effectively for any get together.
“The chairmanship of the get together had been zoned to the North-West. That call was taken on the degree of the NEC with all of the elements and organs of the get together in attendance.
“If anyone feels in any other case, as I at all times keep as a result of we’re a law-abiding establishment, he’s free to go to courtroom.”
When approached for clarification, the APC Deputy Nationwide Secretary, Festus Fuanter, shied away from speaking about it.