By Aluta News
Mar. 16, 2022
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) has said that the party’s National Executives Council (NEC) meeting will hold on March 17 as scheduled.
Mr Ismaeel Ahmed, Youth Representatives in the CECPC, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen at the end of the committee’s meeting.
Ahmed said that issues concerning the party’s forthcoming National Convention slated for March 26 would be ratified at the meeting.
He said that the committee would not review the party’s zoning arrangement, however, said the arrangement was put in place as a guide not as a constitutional issue.
“The zoning arrangement is a guide for members of the party and not a constitutional issue.
“There will be a NEC meeting tomorrow (March, 17) where most of the issues concerning the party’s forthcoming National Convention will be ratified,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a former Governor of Zamfara, Abdulaziz Yari, from the North-East had obtained the party’s chairmanship Expression of Interest and Nomination forms.
This is in spite of the party’s leadership zoning the position to the North-Central.
There are also indications that a former Governor of Borno, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff also from the North-East may pick his chairmanship forms from the party’s national secretariat soon.
Already, five chairmanship aspirants had picked their forms to contest the position at the party’s National Convention, including: Malam Saliu Mustapha, and a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Sen. Abdulahi Adamu.
Others are Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, also a former Governor of Nasarawa State and Sen. George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.
About 4,000 delegates are being expected from across the country for the APC National Convention where new national executives will be elected to manage the party’s affairs.
The party is presently being managed by its Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).
NAN