The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) may face another major challenge ahead of the 2023 election. According to reports, some top party leaders are working against its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
According to reports obtained by WITHIN NIGERIA on Monday, former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, is leading a team of disgruntled Northern leaders of the party to secretly sabotage Tinubu’s victory in the upcoming polls.
According to reports, APC leaders are working with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to ensure the victory of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
According to sources who spoke with SaharaReporters, Yari recently met with Atiku in Paris, France, on his way to the United States.
According to sources within the APC presidential campaign council (PCC), the Northern politicians are accusing the party’s national leaders and Tinubu of ignoring Yari’s nominations to the PCC.
WITHIN NIGERIA has learned that Yari was a founding member of the APC from the now-defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).
However, the former Zamfara Governor claimed that the party leadership and President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration had relegated him to the background since his successor, Governor Bello Matawalle, abandoned the PDP for the APC.
With everything he did for Buhari and the APC in Zamfara, he said he and his numerous supporters were abandoned. Rather than rewarding him for the investment he made for the APC, he has been running a battle with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), one of the sources reportedly said.
The anti-graft agency is looking into Yari for alleged illegal financial dealings and fund misappropriation.
The former Governor, who left office in 2019, was arrested for his alleged role in the Paris Club refund judgment debts, as claimed by some private firms.
The investigation is looking into his handling of the proceeds of the Paris Club refunds from 2017, when he was chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, to May 2019, when his two terms as governor ended.
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