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Even though the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is yet to officially declared its position on power shift ahead of the 2023 elections, an inkling to the likely power sharing formula to be adopted by the party is beginning to emerge, going by the battle for the position of national chairman. Virtually all those bigwigs in the ruling party already linked to the titanic battle are from the northern part of the country. The list comprises six former governors and senators spread cross the three geopolitical zones in the North. The configuration also shows at least four major tendencies that coalesced to form the APC at the threshold of the 2015 general election, Deputy Group Politics Editor, TAIWO AMODU reports.
The Nigerian media was in overdrive a fortnight ago after news of the suspension of Hadiza Bala Usman, from her job as Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, went public. Usman had been asked to step aside on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari acted on the recommendation of Usman’s supervising minister, Rotimi Amaechi, who is in charge of the Federal Ministry of Transportation. Amaechi, by the way, is said to be one of the select Ministers serving in the Buhari government who has access to him. Most others depend on go-betweens to feel his pulse on issues, official and otherwise.