{"id":24781,"date":"2014-03-27T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=24781"},"modified":"2014-03-27T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T15:35:42","slug":"apc-congress-tinubu-ali-modu-sheriff-on-war-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/apc-congress-tinubu-ali-modu-sheriff-on-war-path\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Congress: Tinubu, Ali Modu Sheriff On War Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>\u2026Tinubu: Let\u2019s Do Consensus<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u2026Sheriff: No, election is it<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>A major crack is tearing down the leadership of the All Progressive<br \/>\nCongress, APC as former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Ahmed Bola Tinubu and<br \/>\nformer Borno State Governor, Ali Modu Sheriff , recently engaged<br \/>\nthemselves in a heated argument over the Party\u2019s congress.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Pointblanknews.com that trouble started at the National<br \/>\nExecutive Council, NEC, meeting of the party in Abuja when Tinubu insisted<br \/>\nthat the APC should not have a congress.<\/p>\n<p>APC is currently running an interim leadership. They are yet to organize a<br \/>\ncongress to elect substantive leaders. Initially, it was agreed the<br \/>\ninterim officers would stay in office for six months, but events seem to<br \/>\nhave overtaken that arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources at that meeting, trouble started when Sheriff, a<br \/>\nleader of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP which had fused to<br \/>\nform the APC, mid way into proceedings, grabbed the microphone and<br \/>\npointedly reminded Tinubu that he cannot impose his opinion on the party.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu had during the meeting according to a source, argued that instead<br \/>\nof having a congress to elect leaders of the party, APC should rather<br \/>\nelect its leaders by consensus.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source that attended the Party\u2019s NEC meeting, Sheriff told<br \/>\nTinubu, \u201cthis is not ACN, you cannot come here and tell us how to run APC,<br \/>\nthis is my party, and I own this party,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu, according a source, replied Sheriff and warned him against any<br \/>\nutterances that will insult the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, General Mohammadu Buhari, Chief Bisi<br \/>\nAkande and other top echelon of the APC who were at the NEC watched in<br \/>\nshocked as Sheriff tongue-lashed Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The former Borno Governor was said to have rained insults on Tinubu who<br \/>\nwas urged not to respond by other chieftains of the party on the high<br \/>\ntable.<\/p>\n<p>A source said Sheriff is also angry with the APC leadership for not siding<br \/>\nwith him in his fight with Governor Kasim Shettima of Borno State. He had<br \/>\nalso accused Tinubu for siding with Shettima, even though Tinubu had made<br \/>\nattempts to reconcile them at his Ikoyi Lagos home, few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Sheriff has been having running<br \/>\nbattles with Tinubu over what he (sheriff) perceive as an attempt by the<br \/>\nparty not to accord him respect and address him as a National Leader of<br \/>\nAPC, an appendage enjoyed by the former Lagos Governor.<\/p>\n<p>It was further gathered that that while some leaders of the APC are not<br \/>\ncomfortable with Sheriff who is regarded as the founder and sponsor of<br \/>\nBoko Haram, the Party hierarchy is not ready to let him go. The former<br \/>\nBorno Governor is seen as a major political player in the North East.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that it took the intervention of General Buahri to calm<br \/>\nboth party leaders.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Tinubu: Let\u2019s Do Consensus \u2026Sheriff: No, election is it A major crack is tearing down the leadership of the All Progressive Congress, APC as former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Ahmed&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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