Vanguard
By Emmanuel Aziken
Uncertainties within the All Progressives Congress, APC as to the direction ahead of the 2023 General Election was at the weekend beginning to clear with postulations of Nigeria’s powerful governors increasingly emerging to drive the process.
The coming out of the governors, it was gathered, and the seeming unwillingness of President Muhammadu Buhari to identify with either Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and national APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has put the two potential successors in a quandary.
The prospect of both campaigns consuming one another in a mutual war of destruction it was learnt, was now making their strategists to pull back after initial gestures of war.
Osinbajo’s fate is not helped by the claim of a ‘trust deficit’ that arose from his time as Acting President in 2018. Since then, President Buhari has not again transferred presidential powers to his deputy.
