APC National Chairmanship race: Having Akume as consensus candidate will pacify Northern minorities
Analysis by Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim, National Coordinator, APC Progressives’ Ambassadors, Abuja
The Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS, (APC), re-scheduled to hold its National Convention on March 26, 2022, is set to re-define a whole lot of issues, values and norms that the emerging stream of political interests-aggregative thinking within the main body of the ruling party, has permitted.
In other words, these stream of political interests-aggregative correlates, if not properly handled and given careful consideration by all the major stake-holding interests, including the establishment circles of government and the intelligence community, amongst others, there are likely to be deepened and re-enforced phases of emerging crisis, capable of affecting the fortunes of the party ahead of the February 25th, 2023 presidential and general elections.
Central to the trending issues of urgent political debate and consideration, is revolving around who becomes, the 5th National Chairman of the ruling party, whether he will be elected or emerges through consensus.
That is why the leaders, elders and significant stakeholders of the APC, including His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, should critically study the political drum beats and go for a stable, disciplined, cultured and polished personality who’s political, social and balanced human relational rapport infrastructure in both group dynamics and social facilitation effects in terms of wide spread acceptability, amiable personality, dispositions and capacity to seamlessly further contacts, are not in doubt.
That personality is none other than Distinguished Senator George Akume, a University of Ibadan trained Sociologist, Labour/ Industrial relations expert, who possesses the instinctual wherewithal, experienced politician, emotional, cognitive, and social intelligence infrastructure to preside over the affairs of men and women in the APC across all affiliatory, cultural, social, ethnic and religious divides, even as he will enjoy the goodwill, kind cooperation and warmth of people of different character-traits.
Having Senator George Akume either as elected or consensus chairman of the All-Progressives Congress party will pacify the Northern Minorities voting-electorates, ahead of the 2023 presidential and general polls.
His emergence will no doubt bring about a new sociology of voting behaviour, which will be based on the concept of person-perception and mechanical solidarity by group sub-populations, who have developed positive sympathy for him, on the basis of his sterling administrative as well as political leadership qualities.
These considerations, which date as far back as when he was a local government council chairman up to his days as Executive Governor, Federal lawmaker and presently Honourable Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, show that Distinguished Senator George Akume, is an urbane man of all seasons, who can drive the needed goodwill that the APC requires to re-assure the larger Nigerian electorate that, making their electoral investments on them for the THIRD TIME, since 2015 to date, will be one that promises to usher in fruitful and rewarding return on their electoral investments.
These return on their electoral investments, judging from the line-up of aspirants for the APC National Chairmanship race, perhaps, it is only Senator Akume, that appears to have the conditioned primary and secondary socialisation-processes to strike a person-perceptional appeal and attraction to respond to the individual and collective stimuli from these multitude of Northern Minorities electorates, alongside their Southern counterparts, irrespective of their population-sizes, population-patterns and population-distributions.
Having Sen. Akume as either the elected or consensus chairman of the APC unarguably pacifies all religious, ethnic, cultural, economic status or social background as stakeholders in a social contract.
As all the major political parties struggle to battle for the soul of the federal and state leadership structures, certain untreated sentiments which came by way of basic and hard political lessons, cannot be any much better than the latest INEC supervised evenly distributive electoral results that characterized the Federal Capital Territory Abuja Six Local Government Council Polls, shared surprisingly between the opposition party PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP) and the ruling party, the ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS party, (APC).
Since from all established indications, the ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS party, (APC), has zoned the National Chairmanship position to the NORTH-CENTRAL geo-political zone, the NORTH as a political entity structured into the North-West, North-East and North-Central, respectively, has to be very careful and most considerate in the political power-sharing equation, specifically to avoid losing the electoral votes both the NORTHERN CHRISTIANS MINORITIES, to the opposition PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC PARTY in the February 25th, 2023 presidential and general elections.
This, the NORTH, can only do by endorsing Distinguished Senator George Akume, to show equity, fairness and justice both in the eyes of political balancing, distribution and allocation of human capital resources as reflected and represented in the current line-up of POLITICAL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS within the APC government, who are mostly Muslims.
No doubt President Muhammadu Buhari is taking his last tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and he needs a party chairman who will be loyal in other to sustain the policies and programmes of his administration, the quality which Sen. Akume possess as illustrated in his campaign slogan “EXPERIENCE, TRUST, INTEGRITY AND CREATIVITY.”
In other words, President Muhammadu Buhari, as the culturally listed and politically labelled father of the Nigerian nation, should prevail on the over ambitious APC governors and significant others, to ensure that Dist. Senator George Akume, a NORTHERN MINORITY, is endorsed as the consensus National Chairman of the ruling party, the ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS .
