Buhari Must Intervene In APC Crisis – Yekini Nabena

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Yekini Nabena, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders to intervene in the crisis rocking the party.

Yekini, who revealed this while speaking with newsmen in Abuja, said, everything must be done to bring back peace and orderliness to APC.

According to him, the party is for progressive people and so party leaders must do all they can to make sure they do not go the way of PDP.

He added that there are severe problems in some state chapters and it can affect preparations for governorship polls in Ondo and Edo State.

His words, “We are progressives and our leaders have a duty to provide counsel and leadership so that we don’t go the way of the opposition party.

“The APC has serious business to deal with; there are deep problems in some state chapters, while bitter fallouts from rancorous primaries have also hit many states.

“We also have to prepare for governorship elections in Ondo and Edo. We can’t make any impact if we remain divided.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.