This is according to a report by
Tribune.
They claim that president Buhari is considering giving former Lagos
State governor Bola Tinubu more ministerial slots as a way of pacifying
the national leader of the APC who is said to be very angry about the
goings on in the party...especially the national Assembly crisis.
"Sources close to the APC
confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that the presidency had discovered
lately that Tinubu was angry and had been putting some measures in place to pacify the national leader of APC.
Tinubu’s camp was said to have been angered by Buhari’s failure to back
its strategies that would have ensured the emergence of candidates of
the party for the positions of Senate president and Speaker of the House
of Representatives.
It was learnt that Tinubu was particularly
angry that Buhari did not make good his promise to address APC
legislators at the International Conference Centre on June 9, leading to
the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate president.
It was
also gathered that Tinubu’s loyalists fingered Buhari’s men in the
uprising that shut out the former Lagos governor from the last National
Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party, held in Abuja, last
week.
Though Tinubu is not a member of NEC statutorily, no one really made an issue out of that until Buhari assumed office.
Some Tinubu loyalists said they suspected the presidency might have
given tactical backing to the group of former governors, who threatened
to storm the meeting if Tinubu was allowed at the venue.
It was,
however, gathered on Thursday in Abuja that Buhari had resolved to
pacify Tinubu, so that the party would not break up under his watch.
A source said the presidency was considering giving Tinubu four
ministerial slots, to compensate for the loss of speaker and Senate
president.
But sources in the party said that there are
some hardliners who were of the view that Buhari could continue to call
Tinubu’s bluff, having assumed the position of party leader.
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