Parallel campaigns within APC From Hope Abah (Makurdi), Promise Adagba (Akure) & Abdullahi Abdulrahaman Chakwa (Gusau) & Ibrahim Musa Giginyu, Katsina While the All Progressives Congress (APC) officially kicked off its presidential campaign last week, a major hindrance to its effective spread in all the geopolitical zones and states in the country has remained the lack of synergy […] From Hope Abah (Makurdi), Promise Adagba (Akure) & Abdullahi Abdulrahaman Chakwa (Gusau) & Ibrahim Musa Giginyu, Katsina While the All Progressives Congress (APC) officially kicked off its presidential campaign last week, a major hindrance to its effective spread in all the geopolitical zones and states in the country has remained the lack of synergy in many states.
Weekend Trust checks revealed that there are many states where leaders of the party claiming to work for the reelection of its presidential candidate, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, prefer to work in isolated camps, without as much as involving other leaders in its operations.
This, our correspondent learnt, is due to unresolved leadership disputes, personality clashes and the bid outdo each other to prove the one with the bigger political worth.
The intensity, however, varies in degree from state to state, with some openly defying each other, while some put up a façade of working together, but beneath the surface are trying to undermine each other’s efforts.
Investigations reveal that in states where the governors joined the APC only after winning elections, the process of integrating the party structure on ground has not been concluded, leading to suspicion between those who moved the governors and those they met on ground. In states like Plateau, Taraba, Adamawa and Kano, there are still vestiges of animosity between the two major camps of the defecting governors and those they met on ground. In states like Anambra and Osun, where the governors are members of other parties but have been integrated into the APC presidential campaign council, the preexisting party structures there have shown that they are not comfortable with the arrangement. States like Benue, Ondo, Katsina, Zamfara have shown that the contending forces are not aligned to work together for the reelection bid of its presidential candidate due to unrestrained rivalries between the governors and other powerful figures from the party in their states, who have the ears of Abuja.
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