How Governors Uzodinma, Abiodun, Bello Failed To Scuttle APC Convention, Make Buni Substantive Chairman

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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.

 

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.

 

It was gathered that, with the exception of three governors, who surprisingly requested the transmutation of the Caretaker Committee Chairman to substantive status, all other APC governors were in sync with President Buhari’s position on National Convention for February as well as  the zoning arrangement.

 

The Caretaker Committee is expected to meet on Tuesday to announce the convention date as well as the official zoning of party positions.

 

Prime Business Africa was the first to report that the governors and the APC, in agreement with President Buhari, had resolved to zone the presidency to the south while the chairmanship position goes back to the North.  The arrangement, according to the exclusive report, was to be a flipping of the  positions as of the tenure of the last substantive chairman Adams Oshiomhole.


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