APC Logo Abdulmumin Jibrin
Abdulmumin Jibrin’s tweet
BY JIMMY ENYEH
Former member of the House of Representatives and member of All Progressive Congress (APC), Abdulmumin Jibrin, has said that the party would collapse if it embraced consensus in choosing its flag bearers at the primaries preceding the 2023 general elections.
Jubrin who represented Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State in the National Assembly disclosed this in a tweet posted on his Tweeter handle on Wednesday.
The tweet reads “I have said it repeatedly, how the APC manage its upcoming primaries at all levels (states and national) including presidential will determine the survival of the party. Anything short of allowing the choice of the people to prevail in the primaries will spell doom for the party”
The 45 years old politician is one of the die-hard loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who recently declared his intention to vie for the country’s plum job.
Jubril is also the Director General of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Support Groups Management Council (ABATSGMC)
It would be recalled that the APC was formed in February 2013 as a result of a merger of opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP – a faction of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
The resolution was signed by Tom Ikimi, who represented the ACN; Senator Annie Okonkwo on behalf of the APGA; Ibrahim Shekarau, the Chairman of ANPP’s Merger Committee; and the Chairman of CPC’s Merger Committee.
The party received approval from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on 31 July 2013 to become a political party and subsequently withdrew the operating licenses of the three parties that merged (the ACN, CPC and ANPP).
The party formed a successful coalition of the opposition parties, ahead of the 2015 general elections.
