Ahead
of 2019 general elections, the moribund Alliance for Democracy (AD) may
be the political haven for associates of embattled National Leader of
the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
It was gathered that except President
Muhammadu Buhari and well-meaning stakeholders in the ruling party take
concrete and genuine steps to placate the former Lagos State governor,
his allies may ditch the party for the AD.
A party source revealed that Tinubu’s camp may have opened discussions
with stakeholders of the platform that brought him to power in 1999.
The party source noted that the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election would be used to test the waters.
The rejection of the recommendations of
the three-member Election Appeal Committee chaired by Mrs. Helen
Bendega, which called for cancellation of the poll that produced Chief
Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), and the submission of his name to INEC by the
National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun was the cause of the cold
war betweenTinubu and the latter.
Tinubu, while demanding for the resignation of Odigie-Oyegun, accused
the former Edo State governor of treating with disdain the joint
petition written by Chiefs Oke, Olusegun Abraham and Senator Ajayi
Borrofice rejecting the outcome of the primary that produced Akeredolu.
While the national leader backed Abraham for the ticket, forces in the
Presidency supported Akeredolu, who was president of the Nigeria Bar
Association (NBA).
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