A former tacit supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari, Engineer Buba Galadima has emerged the national chairman of the newly formed Reformed All Progressives Congress [RAPC].
Some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress [APC] had, on Wednesday, formed RAPC after some irreconcilable grievances with the ruling party.
Engineer Galadima was the National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change [CPC] formed in the run-up to the 2011 national elections as President Buhari’s political platform.
He moved aroun with President Buhari from the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) to CPC and later onward to the APC when the merger was announced in 2014.
ElombahNews recalls that Galadima had lamented that Buhari totally abandoned him after the much he did to bring him to power.
In a conference in Abuja last year, during the unveiling of SoapBoxNG, an event organised by the Initiative for Dialogue and Development [IDD], he boasted that no one played any role more than he did in the president’s quest to power.
He lamented bitterly, however, that ever since Buhari ascended to power, he never received even a phone call from the president, not to mention being granted an audience with him.
It did not, therefore, come as a surprise to this medium that the aggrieved Engineer emerged as the national chairman of RAPC
Reacting to his emergence, an Akwa Ibom political chieftain, Chief Essien Ndueso commended Alhaji Galadima.
He said that it is his prayer that his wealth of experience and dexterity will stabilize the new party and position it for excellence.
He recounted that Buba Galadima is a rare administrator who was National Secretary of CPC.
QUICK BIO OF BUBA GALADIMA
Buba Galadima is a Nigerian politician who was appointed National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) party, formed in the run-up to the 2011 national elections as a leading platform for former military ruler General Muhammadu Buhari.
Buba Galadima is an engineer by training, a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University and hails from Gashua, Yobe State.
He participated in the 1994/5 Constitutional Conference. Galadima was Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Authority (NMA) from 1996 to 1998.
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).
