There are indications that the much anticipated national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for next month, is under ‘threat’ as various tendencies intensify efforts to hijack the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
It is said that some top chieftains of the party, including aspirants lamented that six weeks after February was fixed for the exercise, the caretaker committee under the leadership of the Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has not commenced proper preparations for the exercise.
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Governor of Kebbi State and Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Atiku Bagudu, had on November 22 announced the choice of February for the convention at the end of a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
But six weeks after, the meeting with the president and fixing of the exercise for February, the committee has not kick-started arrangements for the exercise, thus fuelling suspicion among party chieftains on the commitment of the committee to conduct the convention.
The Buni- committee has been piloting the affairs of the party since June 2020 when the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s National Working Committee (NWC) was sacked.
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The February convention is expected to birth a new crop of NWC members to lead the party to the 2023 general elections.
Despite their recent announcement that they would constitute a budget committee for the convention, the Buni-led Caretaker Committee is yet to do so.
The Caretaker Committee is also yet to constitute zoning, publicity and other sub-committees for the convention.