APC Crisis: Tambuwal And Bagudu To Head Peace Panels

Aminu Tambuwal

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is still looking for an enduring solution to the crisis rocking the party at the National Assembly.
The Nation reports that the APC’s governors raised two committees to liaise with Bukola Saraki, the president of the Senate, Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator Ahmed Lawan and members of the Unity Forum and Femi Gbajabiamila.
Aminu Tambuwal, who is Sokoto state governor and the immediate House of Reps speaker, will
head a three-man committee to find amicable resolution of the House crisis. Meanwhile, Atiku Bagudu, who is the governor of Kebbi state, has been appointed the chairman of another three-man panel on the way forward for the Senate.
According to a highly placed source, the two committees will meet with all the warring groups and agree on a win-win formula to put an end to the crisis.
They are expected to report to the APC Governors Forum later this week after which an enlarged session of reconciliation will seal the deal.
“The choice of Tambuwal and Bagudu was informed by the fact that they are conversant with the politics of both chambers and they command tremendous respect from the APC members in the National Assembly.
“By the time they submit their report next week, we would have put the crisis behind us. We are not expecting any deadlock at all going by the responses of the key actors to this peace initiative,” the source said.
Another insider noted: “The governors have also decided to involve state chairmen in finding a solution to the logjam at hand.
“The crisis runs through all the organs and strata of our party. This is why it was imperative to meet with the state chairmen of APC nationwide.”
Earlier this week, President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the APC failed to find the resolution to crisis that rocking the party over the National Assembly leadership. The peace moves of the governors were unsuccessful because the opposite groups could not accept the peace offers of some APC leaders.