APC May Pick Tambuwal, Remi Tinubu For President, Vice President Respectively…Possible Cabinet emerges
The picture of what is to become of the All Progressive Congress, APC Government is beginning to emerge as sources have hinted that Speaker Aminu Tambuwal has been tipped as Presidential Candidate and Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, wife of Bola Ahmed Tinubu running as Vice President.
APC leaders have been considering zoning the Presidency to the North and mulling zoning the running mate to the South-West.
While General Muhammadu Buhari insists the President must come from the North, Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants the Vice President to come from the South West.
Both leaders want the top positions shared to reflect their strength in the APC.
The former Lagos State Governor,Tinubu, a major financier of the APC was alleged to have used his huge influence to insist that his wife run as a Vice Presidential candidate with Tambuwal under the APC.
Mrs. Tinubu, a current Senator had told a Lagos based tabloid recently that she will rather run as a Vice Presidential candidate than take over from incumbent Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State.
The initial position of the Vice President was allegedly reserved for Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi who is expected to join the APC but agitations from the South West politicians who wanted more significant presence in the Government caused the reversal, a source who does not want to be named said.
Another source within the APC said, as 'we speak Oluremi, wife of former Lagos State Governor and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is being positioned by her husband to run for VP and you know her husband is a major stakeholder in the APC.'
According to him, 'she is currently lobbying women in the South West and making some appreciable in-road in the North Central for supports ahead of the 2015.
This is even as Senator Ali Modu Sheriff is alleged to have been penciled down to become the Senate president while former Ekiti State Governor, Otunba Niyi Adebayo will get the position of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
The Position of the Speaker will go to Victor Ogene, an All Progressive Grand Alliance member of the House of Representative should he return to the House.
To compensate the South South region, Amaechi is to be named the Petroleum Minister while Mallam Nuhu Ribadu will take the position of Defence Minister and Mallam El-Rufai Works Minister. Oby Ezekwesili will be offered the position of Finance Minister in the proposed APC cabinet.
Governor Babangida Aliyu will emerge as Foreign Affairs Minister, Tom Ikimi will get the position of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister while Attorney General of the Federation goes to Muiz Banire, a lackey of Tinubu.
The APC recently named members of its National Working Committee, NWC, with Chief Bisi Akande emerging as acting National Chairman.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Masari, and the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Mallam Nasiru el-Rufai were also nominated by the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to serve as members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the yet-to-be registered All Progressives Congress, APC.
Other officers nominated for APC interim leadership include the National Woman Leader, Mrs. Sharon Chiazor; National Youth Leader, Mr. A. Lado, National Vice Chairman (North Central), General Aboki (rtd); National Deputy Auditor, Captain Bala Jibril and an ex-officio member, Hon. Musa.