President Muhammadu Buhari has dumped the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Presidential Reconciliation Committee he set up on February 6, 2018, to return cohesion to the All Progressives Congress.
The President made his position known on Monday in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina.
Rather, President Buhari declared his support for the reconciliation committee set up by the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, and inaugurated on November 21, 2018.
President Buhari had set up the Asiwaju Tinubu-led committee via a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
This was in the heat of the crisis that hit the APC in the early week of 2018.
The two paragraph statement setting up the committee said: “As part of on-going efforts to improve cohesion within the All Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari has designated Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the consultation, reconciliation and confidence building efforts.
“The assignment will involve resolving disagreements among party members, party leadership and political office holders in some states of the Federation.”
But on Monday in the statement by Adesina, President Buhari said the setting up of such a committee was the duty of the party.
He thus said party members should relate with the committee set up by Oshiomhole.
In the statement issued on Monday, Adesina said: “In a related development, President Buhari has also advised members to work with the reconciliation committees impaneled for the six geopolitical zones by the APC, and not a purported Presidential Committee on Reconciliation, stressing that the Party is the only body authorised to constitute such committees.”
