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Governors Hope Uzodinma (Imo State) Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Yahaya Bello (Kogi), during the meeting of governors in Abuja on Sunday, made frantic efforts to scuttle the proposed February 26 National Convention of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) but failed.
Impeccable sources, who were privy to all that transpired at the make-or-mar meeting, told Prime Business Africa that when attempts to truncate the planned February 26 National Convention met the brick wall, the three governors turned to what was considered to be a plan B. They allegedly called for the transmutation of Yobe State Governor and APC Caretaker Committee Chairman Mai Mala Buni as substantive Chairman of the ruling party.
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The move also failed, as all the other APC governors rejected it with strong voice.
Prime Business Africa gathered that the three governors, led by the Imo State governor, Uzodinma, had vehemently opposed the choice of any date for a national convention without recommending any other.
The position of the three governors on the matter, according to authoritative sources at the meeting, were, however, met with the stoutest resistance from their colleagues who were overwhelmingly supportive of President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision that the Convention must be held in February.
The meeting finally ended with the APC governors backing a proposal for the ruling party’s National Convention to hold on February 26.
APC Governors’ Meeting Okays February 26 For National Convention
The new February 26 date, it was gathered, became imperative as the original February 5 date could no longer be actualised because the ruling party lost time while trying to reconcile some warring state factions ahead of the National Convention. Political parties are statutorily required to issue a 21-day notice to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) about their national convention.
