By Levinus Nwabughiogu
Crisis appears imminent in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, over the party’s insistence to field Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate President and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the incoming 9th National Assembly.
The party had, last month, endorsed the duo for the positions, following which many senior members of the APC keyed into it.
But a sudden realization by some of the senior party members that the endorsement was a bad omen for them regarding who succeeds President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 is generating ripples which may tear the APC apart along ethnic lines.
Another issue reportedly being considered by some of the senior party members, especially from the North, for backing out of the party’s decision is the perception that supporting the two candidates, who they say are the allies of a former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of APC, Asiwaju Ahmed…
