A former member of the board of trustees (BoT) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Buba Galadima has predicted bickering and infighting in the ruling party if President Muhammadu Buhari annoints a candidate for the 2023 presidential election.
He made this claim in an interview with newsmen, just few hours to the national convention if the APC, where the presidential primaries will hold on Monday.
The Northern chieftain affirms that President Buhari will anoint one of the aspirants.
In his words, “You don’t need to be a prophet or soothsayer to know that the President will indeed anoint whosoever he wants to be the candidate of the APC.
“But what one needs to look at is whether he could do that with some sense of decorum, with some sense of decency, with some sense of consideration for the opinion of the majority members of his party. My answer is No.
“Therefore, whoever he anoints will cause bickering, infighting, and a lot of anti-party activities. This will bedevil the APC.”
However, Galadima disclosed that Buhari had an understanding with a presidential aspirant Bola Tinubu to handover power to him when he concludes his terms.
” Not perfectly an agreement, but there was an understanding because Tinubu with one other person and the President also with another person sat down and the information we got was that they agreed that if Tinubu would help Buhari win, he would become the Vice-President. When that was not possible, they called him to ask him to assist because of the exigencies of the time, which wouldn’t have allowed for a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
“They said that whatever he does, he should deploy and make sure that Buhari becomes President and that when he (Buhari) is going, he would also do whatever he would in his powers to assist Tinubu to become President. It looks like they are now going back on that understanding.
“And a promise is a promise whether written or unwritten because if you can subvert it, God knows your heart. And God never accepts betrayal. When you are committed, whether it is sour or bitter, or tasty, you have to swallow it.”
