APC crises worsen as governors, NWC cancel monthly meeting

A monthly consultative meeting of the national leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) and its governors on the platform of Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) scheduled to hold Wednesday was suspended after two governors had arrived.

 

It was gathered that the meeting was put on hold after the NWC got hint that some of the governors wouldn’t attend because of their various grievances against the party leaders.

 

Specifically, the recent ward congresses held in Kano and Kogi States which ended in controversy were said to have annoyed the affected governors and pitched them against the Chief John Oyegun led leadership.

 

For Wednesday meeting, two governors; Jigawa State, Alhaji Mohammed Badaru Abubakar and Deputy Governor of Edo State Hon. Philip‎ Shuaibu, had arrived for the meeting before it was announced to have been cancelled.

 

The meeting was supposed to be the fifth in the series of the monthly meetings of the APC National Working Committee and the governors.

 

At the beginning of the meeting, which was held in April, the party had stated that it was in preparation for 2019 general elections.

 

The party had also used the meeting to address issues bothering on financing of the party and its non-elective National Convention.

 

Briefing journalists after its last month ‎meeting, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi said that the party had expanded the meeting to include APC principal officers at the National Assembly.

 

The suspended meeting would have been the first to be attended by the APC principal officers of the National Assembly.

 

But in his reaction, the APC National Publicity Secretary Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, said the meeting could not hold because of another meeting of the governors and the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

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