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Malami, others in C started plotting against Tinubu in 2024  —  Obono-Obla

By Bayo Wahab

April 20, 2025


Okoi Obono-Obla, former special adviser on public prosecution to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, says of the Congress for Progressive Change (C) bloc led by Abubakar Malami have been plotting against President Bola Tinubu since April 2024.

He said some of the bloc recently criticized the president and their purported plan to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress started less than a year into Tinubu’s istration.

Obono-Obla accused Malami of initiating the plan, adding that the former Attorney-General of the Federation should not be speaking for the C because he is not a founding member of the bloc.

“He has no right. Malami cannot speak for C. He came from PDP. He had even ran for election in 2007 under the platform of PDP,” Obono-Obla.

Recounting the early days of the C, he said, “I was among the people who put the political association known as C together.

“When we went to that association as a political party, I was among the national officers who went to INEC to that political association as a political party. That was in 2008. He was not there.

“I became the national interim adviser from 2008 to 30th December 2010. And then the party was already ed by INEC in 2010. We were going to have our first national convention.

“So they asked those of us who were interim officers and interested in contesting in the national convention to resign, and I resigned.”

After the party was ed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in 2010, Obono-Obla said he held the national deputy secretary in 2011, while Malami served as the party’s national legal adviser until the C was dissolved.

How Malami’s plot against Tinubu started

Obono-Obla revealed that some of the C bloc started a move to undermine Tinubu’s government at a dinner in a hotel in Abuja.

“This thing did not start because President Bola Tinubu is not doing well,” he said.

“Last year, 28th of April, Emeka Nwajiuba, who was minister of state for education, he was also a member of the C merger committee.

“He’s from Imo state. He invited me for a meeting. He said, ‘Obla, come, we want to have dinner in a hotel in Maitama, Abuja, to celebrate Sallah.

“So I went, innocently. I didn’t know what they were going to do. I just went to have dinner.”

He said Malami, former C state chairmen, and individuals previously expelled attended the dinner.

“All those people were there, and something told me that this thing is political.”

According to him, the dinner quickly turned political as Nwajiuba and Malami criticised the Tinubu istration.

“That government was not yet up to one year in office. It was on the 28th of April, 2024. Then Malami spoke. Then the people they invited, some of them were very unhappy, they were angry.

“They said, ‘Look, we put you in government, ministers for eight years; you were very powerful.

“Somebody like Abubakar Malami, he was very powerful. ‘What did you do to help C as a party? What did you do to ensure that C is not marginalised? Why are you now coming to us?”

He said it became clear to him that the grievance was longstanding and politically motivated.

“They couldn’t say anything, and so they started planning this thing since last year. It’s not today,” he added.

Obono-Obla maintained that the recent move by some C bloc against the President was planned.

“It’s planned, it’s not because the current president is not doing well. They have something that is disturbing them, and we don’t like it.”

Meanwhile, founding of the , Farouk Aliyu, former minority leader of the House of Representatives and Osita Okechukwu, former director-general of the Voice of Nigeria, have refuted the claim that the C bloc within the ruling party plans to defect ahead of the 2027 elections.

The ruling party chieftains said the C bloc remains committed to ing Tinubu’s second-term bid.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/malami-others-in-c-started-plotting-against-tinubu-in-2024-obono-obla/

Previous threads:

Buhari Turns Down APC Governors Appeal To Stop C Bloc From Leaving The Party
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8396042/buhari-turns-down-apc-governors

2027: Tinubu Moves To Halt APC Defections From C Bloc – Vanguard
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8397906/2027-tinubu-moves-halt-apc

Our Loyalty, Is For APC & President Tinubu - Leaders Of defunct-C bloc
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8400367/loyalty--apc-president-tinubu#135011975

You Can’t Speak For C Bloc, Malami's Aide Repkies Al-Makura
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8401878/cant-speak-c-bloc-malamis

"C Black Sheep Holding Press Conference To Tinubu"
https://nairaland.moviesx.org/8400450/c-black-sheep-holding-press

This man still dey?

The sensible ones amongst them will Tinubu.

They should go and enjoy their dinner in peace. No be every soup we go dey chop.

hmmm. It is well.

Lol. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
APC will disintegrate before 2027

naptu2:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/malami-others-in-c-started-plotting-against-tinubu-in-2024-obono-obla/

Smh. This man and Malami again.

Space booked

naptu2:


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/04/malami-others-in-c-started-plotting-against-tinubu-in-2024-obono-obla/

This is all politics and nothing personal. Tinubu himself hasn't covered himself in glory and I won't begrudge those who started orchestrating his defeat as early as 2024. Tinubu himself orchestrated Jonathan's defeat in 2015 as early as 2011, so no big deal.

SensualMan1:
Lol. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
APC will disintegrate before 2027

Touché. All the opposition that Tinubu has been facing has been from APC. Man is too greedy and self-centered. The traditional opposition figures have barely ed the fray. The number of aggrieved party that will stay behind and sabotage the party are more than the number that has left the party.

sleek214:
This man still dey?

Hand go soon touch him on a norms e suppose dey chill for kikiri but Tinubu no wan spoil Buhari face

SensualMan1:
Lol. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
APC will disintegrate before 2027

Some of them will leave like saraki and co left in 2018 and heaven will not fall.

Don't celebrate too early

BAT has never lost a political war in his life in the long run

If not that Tinubu doesn't want to be seen as persecuting buhari, otherwise a malami and his likes should be cooling in prison like Emefiele but hand will still touch him.
Malami that couldn't win anything in his state, ordinary primary election he couldn't secure he's now plotting. Nonsense.

This people think Nigerians have short memories. This thief Obono Obla who was arrested for looting recovered properties under Buhari. He wants another appointment under Tinubu

Good

When malami was the minister of justice, he and his collaborators did all possible means but failed. Now that he's a nobody even in his state, he's here plotting another failed bid

Okay

Let them bring down the roof. Who cares

Hundreds of malami no reach!

SensualMan1:
Lol. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
APC will disintegrate before 2027

Simple truth.

So

Malami should be arrested already

When Buhari was in power, ACN bloc do not cry, so why is C bloc crying and feeling important?

Every party with their internal crisis sha and it will be resolved soon I know

Okay

If they bring Atiku into their plans ,they have already failed from the start

SensualMan1:
Lol. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
APC will disintegrate before 2027

it has been disintegrated even before 2023 election and Tinubu was still able to maneuver his way.this same c caucus cause the fuel scarcity as well as naira scarcity in connivance with the CBN just to ensure Tinubu does not win. We all witnessed it then nah.