BREAKING!!! A NEW FACTION OF THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) HAS EMERGED IN ABUJA



The new faction is named Reformed-APC (R-APC) with Buba Galadima appointed as the Chairman.
The new faction is made up of aggrieved members of the APC, mostly from the National Assembly.
Briefing journalists after their meeting at the Sheraton Hotels in Abuja this evening, the chairman, Galadima, said the new faction was formed due to the failure of the APC.
They described APC as “severely underperforming and unable to meet its potentials for good governance.”
During the Nigerian Fourth Republic, established in May 1999, Galadima became a chieftain of the leading opposition party, the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP). In June 2002 Galadima was interviewed on a proposal by President Olusegun Obasanjo to restructure local governments in the country. He expressed his party's opposition to the move. He said that Obasanjo, "the usurper president of this country", was trying to sneak in the changes surreptitiously, giving state governors the right to appoint unelected officials to run the local governments, but also introducing Consultative Assemblies for regions and thus undermining the powers of the states.[4]
On 29 April 2004 Galadima was arrested in Abuja by officers from the State Security Services (SSS). Amnesty International expressed concern that he was at risk of torture or ill-treatment.  As chairman of the mobilization committee of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) Galadima had planned to be involved in an anti-government protest which took place on 3 May in Abuja and Lagos. He was released without charge on 13 May.
After the 21 April 2007 presidential election the Supreme Court heard various charges of impropriety. Buba Galadima, National Campaign Secretary of The Buhari Organisation (TBO), claimed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was trying to frame Buhari with false claims about the sources of his campaign funding. He said the PDP was plotting "to take them [opposition leaders] out of circulation so that they can continue with their misdeeds against the Nigerian people unnoticed".
Ethnic violence broke out in Jos, Plateau State in November 2008, with the death toll rising above 350. Galadima called for a declaration of emergency rule in the state to stop the killing and maiming by thugs, who he said seemed to be armed by the state government. TBO called for an independent Judiciary Enquiry Panel to look into the cause of the crisis. In November 2009 Galadima said that if the government failed to reform the State Security Service (SSS), the result could be "chaotic, anarchic and violence prone 2011 elections". This repeated a statement made by SSS Director General Afakiriya Gadzama. The SSS arrested and interrogated Galadima on the grounds that his statement was a call for violent change.
He is one of the nine signatories that signed the merger agreement between the three political parties that came together, with a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Congress for Progressive Change(CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).
No politician has ever suffered the kind of calamities Engr Buba Galadima went through in the country, was arrested, detained and harassed for about 38 times. And He never changed, even under such a pitiable conditions, He stood his ground as a patriotic, loyal and honest democrat.
Engineer Buba Galadima, voiced his concerns over attempts to scheme out northern Christians from holding one of the presiding positions of the National Assembly, namely speaker of the House of the Representatives. Eventually, Members of the House of Representatives elected Hon Yakubu Dogara, who represents Bogoro/ Tafawa Balewa federal constituency in Bauchi state, as the Speaker of the 8th Assembly.
With this development which includes the likes of Galadima, the days ahead are bound to be quite interesting.
 More details later.
Report by Banji Ja’Afar





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