Olawale Olaleye
Barring any last minute change, President Muhammadu Buhari has been scheduled to meet with all the aggrieved parties in the aftermath of the contentious primary elections that typified most of the state chapters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with a view to finding a lasting solution.
This is believed to be against the backdrop of a report recently submitted by a five-man panel set up by the president to look into the crisis in the affected states especially in Ogun and Zamfra States, which is said to have put so much pressure on the president to step in.
According to sources within the presidency, members of the panel included the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu; the Attorney-General, of the Federation, Abubakar Malami and the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
This move is however coming at the same time Senate President Bukola Saraki has described as unjust and unfair, the current predicament of the Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, saying his poor treatment has justified the basis of their exiting the APC at the time he and his people did.
Saraki, who spoke exclusively to THISDAY, recalled the role played by the Ogun State Governor in the period President Buhari was very sick in faraway London, the United Kingdom and proclaimed: ‘Amosun was a true friend of the president’.
But disturbed by the distraction the aftermath of the party crisis has since caused, the president has resolved to intervene in all states with lingering crisis, relying on both security reports and the findings of his five man panel
The president is said to have realised that the Oshiomole-must-go agenda was real especially with the involvement of governors, NWC members and some close allies of his, who maintained they could no longer work with him.
He has therefore set Tuesday aside to address the matter once and for all and in all the states affected.
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