HOW THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CLEVERLY AIDED BUHARI TO CRIPPLE TINUBU

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HOW THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CLEVERLY AIDED BUHARI TO CRIPPLE TINUBU.

By Political Animal.

Buhari is shooting from all cylinders and the mission is to cripple every Tinubu chances of bribing and begging his way to become APC flag bearer for 2023 

Buhari is giving to Tinubu what Tinubu gave to ambode in 2019.

How did Reps and Senators pass a bill that basically removed powers from them at the local and Presidential level. It’s confusing. Is it an act of God?

109 Senators and 360 Reps... all intellectuals... Some SANs, some Profs, some senior lecturers, some ex governors, deputy. governors. Worrisome...

What an opportunity for Buhari to do his job. Most of them go there to eat Kolanuts and Bitter Kola.

Well, what do we expect from “supposed intellectuals” in a  retirement home? People that just go to plenary to sleep and say “Yay or nay”! Buhari didn't just cripple  

Tinubu, but he has also crippled Atiku by reducing PDP delegates to 800.

A Masterstroke from the so called dullard who allows everyone make noise on TVC and silence everyone with actions.

The Fulanis have been teaching some so-called sophisticated southern politicians  politics 101.

Aspirants and candidates, should please read, read, read the INEC Bible. It is very clear that if you want to hide anything for Nigerians, just write it in a book. I plead with all party National, State, LGA and Ward Chairmen who are unaware of the current INEC Act 2022/ electoral guidelines to go and read before it becomes too late.

That “I have been a politician for 20yrs", this line of thinking will not work in 2023. This I have been shouting for a while now to those in politics who come around me.

The refusal of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to sign the Electoral Act amendment bill that would have permitted statutory delegates to vote has altered the voting strength of some states.

Section 12.1 of the All Progressives Congress constitution says members of the national convention shall include members of the board of trustees, national chairman and all members of the national executive committee, serving and past presidents, vice presidents, serving and past governors and deputy governors who are members of the party, serving and former members of the National Assembly, members of the state working committees, all local government chairmen along with three elected delegates from each of the 774 local government areas.

This came to the fore on Monday as the party again shifted its senatorial primary from May 26 to May 27.

With the President’s refusal to sign the bill, the number of delegates has dropped from 7, 800 to about 2, 340. The 2,340 consist of three delegates from each of the 774 local governments in the country and six area councils in Abuja.

It is observed that Lagos, which has one of the largest number of statutory delegates due to its large number of APC public officials, will now be left with 60 delegates because it has just 20 local government areas.

Lagos, which ideally should have 304 delegates, was in the top five only behind Kano, Katsina, Borno and Osun. However, with only 60 delegates, Lagos is now 19th.

Also, states that have a low APC membership or that are governed by the Peoples Democratic Party but have a large number of local governments will now have an advantage over Lagos.

For instance, Akwa Ibom which has 31 LGAs, Oyo which has 33 LGAs and Rivers and Sokoto which both have 23 LGAs each, will now have more delegates at the presidential primary than Lagos.

Borno, which should have the third highest number of delegates due to its large number of serving and former elected APC members, will now have a lower number of delegates than Akwa Ibom and Oyo because it has 27 LGAs. Essentially, Borno has also fallen from having the third highest number of delegates to having the fifth highest.

However, it is observed that Kano, Katsina and Osun retained their lead by virtue of the large number of local government areas that they possess. Kano, which has 44 LGAs will have 132 delegates while Katsina with 34 LGAs will have 102 elected delegates. This also applies to Osun State which has 30 LGAs and will thus have 90 delegates.

It is very clear that 15 states combined have the total strength to determine the outcome of the presidential election. They are Kano (132), Katsina (102), Akwa Ibom (93), Oyo (99), Osun (90), Jigawa (81), Imo (81), Borno (81), Delta (75), Rivers (69), Sokoto (69), Benue (66), Anambra (63), Adamawa (63) and Kebbi (62) with a combined 1, 224 delegates.

It is unfortunate that Lagos had fallen on the pecking order due to the exclusion of statutory delegates.

Lagos should have been too important to be put in such a position because of the exclusion of statutory delegates. 

There is no doubt that there is a lot of gang up against Tinubu but he has refused to listen.

The current development  has taken away the advantage the executive  enjoyed even though it might not offer a fair representation of the states at the presidential primary.

Based on the number of local government per state some will have high number of delegates while some will have very low.

Number Of Ad-Hoc Delegates From The 6 Geo-Political Zones That Will Vote In The APC Presidential Primaries .

(1) SOUTH EAST  = 285

(2) SOUTH SOUTH  =375

(3) SOUTH WEST   =408

(4)NORTH EAST = 336

(5)NORTH CENTRAL  =354

(6)NORTH WEST  =561

Tinubu believed that he could use money and begging to have his way, but the northerners aren't stupid when it comes to politics. 

They will eat TINUBU’S money and still disgrace him.

How is he going to explain to his supporters that he  lost his life ambition, which they deployed everything for and claimed nobody can stop them.

We told his supporters to wait for just one week to the convention but they refused.

Now “cold water don” enter their body.

Buhari will now have  to say who becomes APC candidate, just like what happened during the election of the party chairman.

APC has given Buhari  the driver’s seat "indefinitely", 

The next item on APC unofficial timetable is now the meeting with buhari before any other activity can happen.This much some political analysts on the platform of APC said last night on Channels Television.