Uduegbunam Chukwujama
Prime Business Africa reports authoritatively that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will no longer inaugurate the 20 committees, which the ousted caretaker chairman Mai Mala Buni set up for the March 26, 2022 National convention. The event was earlier slated for today (Monday, March 7, 2022)
Asked if the cancellation was as a result of Buni’s removal by President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, some senior members of the party in Abuja told our correspondent that the committee as composed had been subject of controversy because the Presidency and APC governors had no confidence in it.
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”The list of sub committees for the convention will be suspended and a revised one published to accommodate the input of the President and the governors,” a senior APC member close to the new administrator, said Sunday night.
”We believe that Buni’s committees were deliberately populated by members and two or three governors, opposed to holding National Convention and possibly plotting Buni’s transmutation to a substantive chairman of the APC,” one of the active leaders of the party told Prime Business Africa on Sunday night.
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This newspaper confirmed that, as at 4 pm 0n Sunday, more than a hundred of Buni’s proposed members of different sub committees had arrived Abuja from different parts of the country in readiness for the Monday morning inauguration. ”Others are expected to fly in on tomorrow (Monday) morning,” a senior member of the party from one of the northern states told Prime Business Africa.
This does not look like the best of times for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). the sequence of events within the party in the last three months has a lot of back and forth as personal and group interest continue to slow down its march to a successful national convention..
PrimeBusiness was the first to break the news. In fact, other new media such as the Guardian, attributed the news to PrimeBusiness. Kudos to the team!!