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APC sets up Caretaker Committee, elects new leaders in 6 months
…NEC ratifies Ize-Iyamu as Edo governorship candidate
BY NICHOLAS ABE
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Thursday dissolved the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The APC NEC subsequently appointed the Yobe State Governor, Mai Malla Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Convention Committee.
Governor Buni, who was the former Secretary of the APC was sworn-in by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, at the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The president advised that all litigations in the party should stop.
The APC NEC further ratified the candidacy of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the party’s candidate in the September governorship election of Edo State.
It also gave the Mai Malla Buni-led committee six months to organise the election of new National Working Committee of the party.
Details of the emergency NEC meeting were disclosed by Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting held inside the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
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Chief Victor Giadom, the Acting National Chairman of the APC, was the first to arrive for the meeting. He was sighted around 8:30 am.
Other party chieftains in attendance included the National Deputy Chairman, Lawal Shuaibu; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan; Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; and 16 state governors.
The 16 Governors were, Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Abdulhahman Abdulrazak (Kwara), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), and Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Engr. Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa), Niger (Abubakar Bello), Mohammed Badaru (Jigawa), Mai Malla Buni (Yobe), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Mohammad Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos).
Also present at the Council Chamber were the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege; the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ahmed Idris Wase; the House majority leader, Hassan Dogowa and the Deputy Chief Whip, House of Representatives, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha.
In line with the COVID-19 prevention guidelines, some of the participants attended virtually.