The 24 governors of the ruling
All Progressives Congress, APC, have agreed with President Muhammadu Buhari
that APC constitution should be respected in electing a new National Working
Committee, NWC, members for the party.
This was disclosed by the Zamfara
State governor, Abdulaziz Yari after Buhari met with some of the governors.
President Buhari had at the party’s
National Executive Committee’s meeting last week declared as illegal, a
proposal for the extension of the tenure of the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led
NWC of the party.
On Wednesday, five governors
again met with the president and agreed to hold ward congresses and a national
convention.
The governors include Abdulazeez
Yari (Zamfara) Simon Lalong (Plateau), Rochas Okorocha (Imo), Abdullahi Ganduje
(Kano) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun).
Speaking on their behalf, Yari
told state house correspondents that all the governors are on “the same page
with Mr. President”.
According to him, they have
collectively agreed that the party’s congress will hold at all levels.
“Gentlemen of the press, you know
yesterday we left you in the dark after the meeting and today we have seen so
many captions that there is disagreement between the governors over the issue
of party chairman or about the party leadership,” Yari said.
“No. We had a meeting with Mr.
President yesterday (Tuesday), and we extended the meeting tonight and we
followed up with the consultations with the President now.
“We consulted and all the 24
governors of the APC are in the same page with Mr. President that we are going
to respect our party constitution, we are going to respect the constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So therefore, we collectively agreed that we
will have congresses at all levels – local, state and national.
“And the committee set up by the
national secretariat of our party headed by governor of Plateau state, is
presenting its report later today. The governors are also meeting with the
working committee today so that we come up with convention committee names as
well as timetable of the election.
“So, there is no deadlock in our
meeting, we have progressed and very soon you will have the names of the
convention committee members as well as the timetable.”
Also speaking, Okorocha said they
had fine-tuned issues with the president. He said the agreement to hold the
congress does not mean the present leadership performed badly.
“I just want to let you know that
there is no crisis in the APC at all. There is no single crisis in APC,”
Okorocha said.
“The issue was one of people who
believe that we did not have enough time to organise a party congress and run
an election. Some people felt that it was a good idea but the most important
thing is that, if we do that we will be contravening both our party constitution
and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“To this effect, the convention
committee will be set out, it will be announced.
“But let me correct one
impression, the issue of congress and convention does not mean that the
previous people who have served the party have done badly. And it does not mean
that they cannot come back or that they cannot re-contest, that is not it.
“We are simply saying that their
tenure has ended and those who wish to re-contest can re-contest and can be
elected to our party structure. So we are all one as a family and we are set to
go for 2019 elections in victory.”
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