Muktar Usman Muktari-Janguza (JanguzaArewa)

The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The APC’s defection crisis is also an opportunity waiting to be seized. APC campaign billboard. Photo Credit: Reuters Soon after coming to power in the historic 2015 elections, the All Progressive Congress' (APC) political compass was already pointing to a gathering storm. In an April 2016 article titled ‘Nigeria’s ruling party at war with itself’, Premium Times painted a portrait of an APC that was paralysed by multiple internal crises: tensions arising from Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara’s emergence as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, against the wishes of party leaders; divisions over top party positions; and a fracturing of the party, stemming from power struggles and personality clashes, in various states.  In December 2016, then-National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun publicly acknowledged for the first time that the party’s internal divisions were affecting “the mo...

Originally published in the Sierra Leone Telegraph on 18 July 2018. Sierra Leone's Chief Minister and Chairman of the Governance Transition Team Professor David Francis formally hands the GTT report over to President Maada Bio on the 4 th of July. Pic: State House Media and Communications Unit. By Muktar Usman Muktari-Janguza Email: janguza.arewa@gmail.com Twitter: @JanguzaArewa On April 6, 2018, just two days after his swearing in, President Julius Maada Bio followed in the footsteps of his predecessor and established a Governance Transition Team (GTT) with a four-pronged mandate to “serve as focal point for the interface with the out-going APC government”; “conduct an immediate stock-taking exercise”; “submit an overview of the current state of affairs”; and “submit a comprehensive report” on the GTT’s findings. On Wednesday, July 4, the Bio administration released its eagerly awaited GTT report. The explosive catalogue of corr...