APC Deputy National Chairmanship: Why Senator Abubakar Kyari may be standing taller in the race

APC Deputy National Chairmanship: Why Senator Abubakar Kyari may be standing taller in the race

By: James Bwala

The zoning of the All Progressive Congress, APC position for the Deputy National Chairmanship to the Northeast is said to be a strategic move in order to balance the party’s position for its outing ahead the 2023 general elections. This tactical move according to political watchers is said to come with some dramatic shift even for the northeast by further micro-zoning the position for the party to overcome its challenges of leadership crises and make way for a better beginning.

However, those who will make the difference according to observers must be those whose political ABC are known to be straight. Amongst the top gladiators for this outing, names like Barata, Kashim Imam, Abubakar Kyari and others streams among party supporters and king makers. For the party to have a good daytrip with the new team to come, pundits are considering the strength and weaknesses of those standing in the line to take the party to Nirvana.   

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With contending forces building up subterfuge to stand tall at the party’s convention come March 26, 2022, political commentators are concluding that the Senator representing northern Borno at the Red Chamber, Senator Abubakar Kyari may be the party’s anointed candidate going by his pedigree as the only candidate in the race who has a history of an unwavering stand with the party.

NEWSng observed that, while it was rumoured that President Muhammadu Buhari may have already anointed the former governor of Nasarawa state, Senator Abdullahi Adamu for the Chairmanship position from the North Central, the combination of Adamu and Borno’s Abubakar Kyari could be the most important decision the party had reached so far on its build up in repositioning itself ahead of 2023 general elections.

Speaking with Ahmed Umar, a political analyst in Abuja, he described Senator Abubakar Kyari as the magical arrow in APC’s quiver. According to him, Kyari, a well-respected Senator on the floor of the Congress, has worked with Senator Abdullahi Adamu and therefore the two have a good understanding of what is required of the struggles in championing the party to victory. 

“The blend of the older generation – Abdullahi Adamu and the younger generation – Senator Abubakar Kyari has balanced the call by supporters of their expectations which has also been part of the struggles that saw the trailing conflicts in the APC recently. The combination carries a lot of political weight in terms of experience, wisdom and Knowledge required for the repackaging of the party for a better outing.” Umar said.

He also observed that while other contenders for the position may have their own support, the pluses with which Senator Abubakar Kyari is coming, stands taller as he has both the backing of the inner Caucuses in the political arrangement and his experience and knowledge about the system and party affairs having been a successful party-man with long standing and unwavering loyalty which speaks for him at every corners of negotiations in and outside the party.

“I am aware that some people are interested in the position as well. I wouldn’t want to mention names as party loyalists. However, I would say I know them personally. If I should put their antecedents in politics, I can comfortably put them on the rollerball of jokers and political traders of which we all know their trades. Some of them are not sellable materials for the position of Deputy National Chairmanship of our great party. They also know that they have the minuses in the race but as their trading pattern, they are out to go for a bargain, which is their trade mark. 

Also Ibrahim Idris, a stakeholder in the APC revealed that one of the factors the party may be considering was the fact that the ANPP bloc, which Senator Abubakar Kyari belongs from inception was one of the political parties that merged to form the APC ahead of the 2015 general election which had not been adequately considered in the political arrangement and therefore needs to be accommodated in the scheme of things in the APC as it were.

“In reaching the decision to zone the APC deputy national chairmanship to the North-east, the presidency and the party’s national leadership and indeed its top echelon might have looked at developments in the party. With these reasons, Senator Kyari is already standing taller in the race; he is both a politician and an administrator. The office requires a lot of administrative support and the party will be counting on his experience to support the task attached to this office. He enjoys an overwhelming support from his colleagues and governors whose political weights are heavier in the making of the party and its affairs.

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“There is a political office that requires politicians with a political background like that of Senator Abubakar Kyari to work out and that is loyalty. People who are here today and are sure to be there tomorrow and very unstable and such are the ones the party is trying to avoid in this build up. Abubakar Kyari has been in the bloodline and therefore has the blessings of the king makers.

“Like I said, Kyari represents the classical example of the loyalty the party needs to ride to glory in the unfolding political scenario as we match to form a formidable party stronger and better than what we have now.  He has the quality needed to support Abdullahi Adamu’s leadership or any other that may emerge from the north Central as the National Chairman of our great party. It is clearer now that the choice is from the North Central and whether the anointed is as the rumour goes, we shall come to know in a few days.” He added.

APC Deputy National Chairmanship: Why Senator Abubakar Kyari may be standing taller in the race