All Progressives Congress (APC) has granted the five governors that defected to the party the privilege to nominate chairmen and five other members of the state executive as a way of accommodating their interests in the party.
The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made the clarification in response to Daily Trust enquiries about report that the said governors have been made leaders of the party in their state.
Lai Mohammed said the agreement reached with the governors is that they will enjoy some privileges regarding party leadership appointments in the state but not the entire party leadership and the machinery as being widely circulated.
He said this is creating tensions among the party members who belong to the old parties that merged to form the APC in some states which the party is making moves to resolve.
He said the report in question which is a telephone interview with him, misrepresented the facts in its headline which is what many people have miss-interpreted, but it is right in the hand body of the report.
The message reads in parts “The headline does not represent what I said during the telephone interview, but the body of the story does, which is simply that, the party agreed to give the same privileges to the defected governors as those enjoyed by the APC governors, which is to nominate the chairmen of state interim committees in addition to Five other members pending the time congresses are conducted,”
In his reaction on the issue a media aide to Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state, Mallam Ja’afar Jafar said that, the issue of leadership of the party is clear, the governor of a state is supposed to be the party leader because he has an edge over the others.
“The issue is simple, people are only being jealous or unnecessarily afraid, but I know the matter will be resolved at the end. It is just a matter of making concessions and personal sacrifices. That is one of beauties of politics and democracy to agree and disagree,” he said.
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