APC: Struggling to become a real ruling party

don’t be worried about it,” said Odigie-Oyegun.

Anger appointments over board

The slow pace in the effort to appoint party members into the boards of federal departments and agencies has created lack of confidence in the party leadership which plays little role in these appointments. Many members were said to be angry that some PDP appointees were still in government to the detriment of APC members who worked for the party’s victory. Odigie-Oyegun, in his reaction to this issue, said though people were murmuring, the appointments would be made very soon and gave an assurance that “unrepentant” PDP members must be flushed out.

Paucity of funding

The ruling APC’s funding challenge is said to have been aggravated by apparent disunity and internal strife among the party’s leading figures. But the challenge seemed to finally have received the needed attention of the party’s governors, going by the remarks of Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State last Wednesday. Lalong said the financial challenge facing the party had received “serious” attention.

“At that time, there were issues like that. But as you can see from this meeting, everyone is smiling. The party is smiling. Those challenges have been taken over by events. That is why I am telling you that we are taking things serious now and we are meeting on a monthly basis now. Issues like that are no longer issues,” he said after the third monthly meeting between Chief Odigie-Oyegun-led NWC and the governors.

As it is, APC seems to be struggling as a ruling party. This situation, pundits say, will change if the party can act as a truly governing party by achieving unity and cohesion among its various contending powerful forces.