2027: Al-Makura, Masari-led Group Can’t Speak For CPC Bloc – Malami Insists

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, has accused the former governors of Nasarawa and Katsina States, Senator Umaru Al-Makura and Bello Aminu Masari respectively of declaring support for the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) for personal gains.

Malami, a strong member of the Congress for Progressives Change and a close political ally of former President Muhammadu Buhari, has pointedly declared that the Al-Makura-led members of the CPC within the APC have no mandate whatsoever to speak for the bloc by insisting that they are not pulling out of the APC.

The former Attorney General specifically said that Al-Makura and his co-travelers, like Aminu Masari were not in a position to speak for and on behalf of the CPC bloc, stressing that they did what they did basically for personal reasons.

Malami, who stated these through his Special Assistant on Media, Muhammed Bello Doka, explained that the CPC bloc, which was the platform former President Buhari used, remains the only bloc that could speak on whether or not it is leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) and not Al-Makura’s group.

In the words of Malami; “When you say CPC bloc, one needs to know who they are referring to. Is it the likes of Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, Adamu Adamu, Masari, and Faruk Adamu Aliyu, who few months ago had thrown Buhari under the bus in desperate attempts to gain relevance that should decide for the bloc?”

Malami pointedly described the Al-Makura and Masari-led group as purely personal, with no connection with CPC bloc whatsoever.

The former Attorney General of the Federation noted that the group were merely seeking relevance in the APC for personal benefits.

Commenting on the rumours of his possible defection to the Social Democracy Party (SDP), Malami said it was not true but only in the realm and imagination of those peddling the rumours.