The peace committee chaired by Sokoto State Governor, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, appear to have failed to resolve the leadership tussle in the caucus of the All Progressives Congress at the House of Representatives.
The indication of this came on Wednesday as the leadership of the House dismissed as “nothing like party position” an earlier letter the APC wrote to the Speaker, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, on the zoning of principal offices.
After the Tambuwal committee met with the group led by Dogara, and that of a former Minority Leader, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, the issue – the sharing of four principal offices – is yet to be unresolved.
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Sunday Njokede: When Buhari starts a full war against corruption, some of these politicians will be sent to jail.
Benny: It is high time we stooped this delusion that Buhari will send people to jail. Is he going to take over from the judiciary? In the United States and the United Kingdom, you do not hear that President Barack Obama or David Cameron will send people to jail.
The best Buhari can do is to prosecute the alleged corrupt individuals while allowing the judiciary to decide their fate.
Sunday Njokede: Benny, you are carried away by the theory of Separation of Powers. In practice, the President can send anybody to jail. Obama made sure an ex-governor of his state went to jail when the President was aware that the latter wanted to ‘sell’ the Senate seat Obama had vacated. Nobody dares the President and goes free.
Lucas: The President can only make a complaint like any other citizen; it is left for relevant agencies to take it from there. America is not like Nigeria where anything goes and the US President is an emperor. The US democracy is so mature that such nonsense is unheard of. Obama could even face impeachment if he oversteps his limits.
Buhari does not even have the power to prosecute anybody much less sending them to jail. Is he a lawyer or the Anthony General of the Federation? He can make a complaint or order an investigation. But that is as far as it goes with him.
Keu4Success: I want to believe that there are, indeed, some forces within the APC which are bent on sabotaging the hard-earned change Nigerians voted for during the last general elections. Otherwise, why is the Dogara-led faction so stubborn? I think the faction is only looking for flimsy excuses to justify its agenda. They are hiding under the cloak of zoning to advance their selfish desire.
Himazi: Well, Nigerians were forewarned by those who could see afar. When everyone is attacking a particular person and forming alliance against the person, you can always suspect that it is for selfish reasons. Those who ruined the Peoples Democratic Party left the party to form new PDP. The APC quickly took advantage of the situation and formed a partnership with them with the purpose of hijacking power. They told Nigerians that they were going to bring change to the country. But their supporters failed to ask them the kind of change they were championing.
Akin: Even if you bring in the best person in the world to rule Nigeria under the current politician structure, there won’t be much change. It is all about power grabbing and position sharing. The country is drifting apart gradually.
Tola: Most of us who watched the whole charade in Abuja have concluded that the current structure, as against returning to regionalism after getting rid of the military, is not workable because it increases ethnic discontentment and distrust. This makes the country ungovernable, even if by the best of leaders. The northerners have a new spring to their steps, the South-West have lost out except for the Vice President and the South-East has nothing. The party, which we fought to the ground, has been given a new breath of life as result of political horse trading that is fuelled by ethnic sentiments.
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