Barely 24 hours after the meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja, ended in deadlock on Tuesday, the governors appeared to have had a change of mind and agreed to conduct fresh congresses for officers in the three tiers of government.
Consequently, the 24 governors of the party threw their weight behind President Buhari’s decision to end the tenure of the incumbent National Chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun and other members of the party’s executive.
President Buhari had met with APC governors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday over tenure elongation of the National Working Committee, NWC, in which majority of the governors had insisted on having tenure elongation for the NWC.
This new development came on a day the 10-man committee set up Tuesday by Chief Odigie-Oyegun, to resolve the tenure elongation logjam, promised to submit its report today, though it was given till Friday to do same.
Addressing State House correspondents after the meeting with President Buhari, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, explained that the meeting on Tuesday at the State House was extended to yesterday for more consultations, adding that they all accepted to be on the same page with the President.
Governor Yari also said the governors will meet with the National Working Committee later in the day to come up with names of the members of the convention team as well as the time-table for the convention.
Vanguard
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