As Jimi Agbaje, Akpabio visit Atiku For
political realignments Ahead 2019..
**PDP to field northern candidate**
The pledge by President Muhammadu
Buhari to serve only one term is
responsible for the whirligig into which
the governing All Progressives Congress
(APC), and indeed the political class in
the country have been thrown, the Daily
Times can authoritatively report.
If not quickly resolved, the intrigues may
make governing Herculean in the next
for years, as politicians of different
ideological backgrounds are forging
informal alliances.
Two-time Governorship candidate in
Lagos, Mr. Jimmy Agbaje, and former
Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill
Akpabio recently paid separate visits to
the Abuja residence of former Vice
President Abubakar Atiku in what is
believed to be linked to the politics of
2019.
It was learnt last night that apart paying
the APC back in its own coin, the
decision of the main opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) not to support
any candidate put forward by the ruling
party for the positions of Senate
President and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, has serious link to the
2019 Presidential contest.
According to sources within the ruling
party, "the decision of President Buhari
not to run in 2019 is already tearing the
party into shreds as potential aspirants
for the office are already mobilizing
across parties and geo- political zones to
forge a realignment for the contest."
The visit by Akpabio and Agbaje to the
Abuja residence of Atiku, according to
information pieced together in Abuja, is
the beginning of the much-expected
realignment and coming together of
former PDP political heavy weights
across the nation before the
commencement of the onslaught on the
factionalized APC.
It was also gathered that the visit to the
residence of Atiku by the Senate
President Bukola Saraki, shortly after
being sworn, was a confirmation that
Atiku was one those who pulled the
strings for his success at election.
Atiku, it was reliably gathered is still
eyeing the presidency and the decision
of Buhari to run for one term has further
given the Adamawa politician the verve
to start making contacts across party
divides.
It was further learnt that the main
reason the APC national leader, Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, reportedly moved
against Saraki was because of the strong
opposition of Saraki to Tinubu's
nomination of Professor Yemi Osibanjo
as the then running mate to Buhari.
Saraki it was learnt, campaigned
vigorously for former Rivers State
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi for the
position of the Vice President. It took the
intervention of former President
Olusegun Obasanjo at his Abeokuta
mansion for peace to peace to reign.
Daily Times also learnt that the
graveyard silence maintained by the
former Rivers state governor on the
National Assembly election was intended
to spite Tinubu who was instrumental to
the scuttling of his vice presidential
ambition.
Apart from that, the Tinubu camp up till
press time is still not comfortable with
the Saraki occupation of the office of the
Senate President. The reasoning in the
camp is that a Saraki Senate presidency
for four years would be too strong for
them to overrun in 2019 since President
Buhari has decided not to run in 2019.
In the unfolding political scenario, the
battle line appears drawn between Atiku
and Tinubu. Already there are reported
moves by Tinubu to truncate the
emergence of Atiku as the chairman of
the BoT of the party, while Atiku on the
other hand is pushing for the leadership
of the party using different fronts within
and outside the party.
The PDP as a party, it was reliably
learnt, is not left out of the scheming
and permutations for the 2019 elections.
The party, according to impeccable
sources within the party, has dispatched
its foot soldiers across the six geo
political zones to mobilize and talk to
party members and non-party members
on the need to return power to the party
in 2019 because of what they described
as the false start of the APC since May
29.
political realignments Ahead 2019..
**PDP to field northern candidate**
The pledge by President Muhammadu
Buhari to serve only one term is
responsible for the whirligig into which
the governing All Progressives Congress
(APC), and indeed the political class in
the country have been thrown, the Daily
Times can authoritatively report.
If not quickly resolved, the intrigues may
make governing Herculean in the next
for years, as politicians of different
ideological backgrounds are forging
informal alliances.
Two-time Governorship candidate in
Lagos, Mr. Jimmy Agbaje, and former
Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill
Akpabio recently paid separate visits to
the Abuja residence of former Vice
President Abubakar Atiku in what is
believed to be linked to the politics of
2019.
It was learnt last night that apart paying
the APC back in its own coin, the
decision of the main opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) not to support
any candidate put forward by the ruling
party for the positions of Senate
President and Speaker of the House of
Representatives, has serious link to the
2019 Presidential contest.
According to sources within the ruling
party, "the decision of President Buhari
not to run in 2019 is already tearing the
party into shreds as potential aspirants
for the office are already mobilizing
across parties and geo- political zones to
forge a realignment for the contest."
The visit by Akpabio and Agbaje to the
Abuja residence of Atiku, according to
information pieced together in Abuja, is
the beginning of the much-expected
realignment and coming together of
former PDP political heavy weights
across the nation before the
commencement of the onslaught on the
factionalized APC.
It was also gathered that the visit to the
residence of Atiku by the Senate
President Bukola Saraki, shortly after
being sworn, was a confirmation that
Atiku was one those who pulled the
strings for his success at election.
Atiku, it was reliably gathered is still
eyeing the presidency and the decision
of Buhari to run for one term has further
given the Adamawa politician the verve
to start making contacts across party
divides.
It was further learnt that the main
reason the APC national leader, Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, reportedly moved
against Saraki was because of the strong
opposition of Saraki to Tinubu's
nomination of Professor Yemi Osibanjo
as the then running mate to Buhari.
Saraki it was learnt, campaigned
vigorously for former Rivers State
Governor, Rotimi Amaechi for the
position of the Vice President. It took the
intervention of former President
Olusegun Obasanjo at his Abeokuta
mansion for peace to peace to reign.
Daily Times also learnt that the
graveyard silence maintained by the
former Rivers state governor on the
National Assembly election was intended
to spite Tinubu who was instrumental to
the scuttling of his vice presidential
ambition.
Apart from that, the Tinubu camp up till
press time is still not comfortable with
the Saraki occupation of the office of the
Senate President. The reasoning in the
camp is that a Saraki Senate presidency
for four years would be too strong for
them to overrun in 2019 since President
Buhari has decided not to run in 2019.
In the unfolding political scenario, the
battle line appears drawn between Atiku
and Tinubu. Already there are reported
moves by Tinubu to truncate the
emergence of Atiku as the chairman of
the BoT of the party, while Atiku on the
other hand is pushing for the leadership
of the party using different fronts within
and outside the party.
The PDP as a party, it was reliably
learnt, is not left out of the scheming
and permutations for the 2019 elections.
The party, according to impeccable
sources within the party, has dispatched
its foot soldiers across the six geo
political zones to mobilize and talk to
party members and non-party members
on the need to return power to the party
in 2019 because of what they described
as the false start of the APC since May
29.
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