Buni’s committee to decide on convention date today As Yobe gov briefs Buhari Lukman resigns
Barring any last minute change, the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will meet today to finally decide on the convention date.
A member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) who craved anonymity also confirmed to our correspondent that the committee would deliberate on the formation of various committees ahead of the convention.
He explained that the budget committee would be constituted to determine how much the party would spend for the convention before other committees, including the zoning committee and publicity sub-committee, would be inaugurated.
“The governors have spoken and the caretaker committee is meeting to do the needful. So just watch out,” he said.
Meanwhile, Governor Buni yesterday met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, where he briefed the president on the decisions reached by the APC governors during their Sunday night meeting in Abuja.
Also yesterday, the Director General of Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has resigned as crisis rages over the national convention.
Our correspondent reports that Lukman resigned on Monday, following a sharp division among the APC governors during their Sunday night meeting in Abuja.
Sources close to him confided to our correspondent that he has already submitted his letter of resignation to the chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum and Kebbi State Governor, Senator Atiku Bagudu.
Our correspondent that some governors
A delegation of Igbo chiefs under the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has taken its consultation to the North in a bid to gain support for the candidacy of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
The secretary general of the group, Mazi Okechukwu Isiguzoro, who led other executives on an advocacy visit to the leadership of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) yesterday in Kaduna, disclosed that N10bn has been set aside to support an Igbo candidate.
He said the delegation had met with some religious and traditional leaders in the North over the presidential project and assured that the Igbo delegation for the 2023 presidency will continue to lobby all parts of the country for the power shift to
learnt at the meeting wanted Lukman to either resign or be sacked, hence his resignation.
It was gathered that while the majority of the governors wanted him to remain as the forum’s DG, others insisted he must go.
Lukman’s phone number was however switched off at the time of filing this report when our correspondent called for comments.
He was said to be controversial on issues concerning the party as some of the statements he issued appeared antagonistic to the top echelon of the party.