Former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and ex-Lagos State governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu are involved in a bitter tussle to become the chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress's (APC) board of trustees, Nigerian Watch reports.
Tomorrow, the APC hierarchy meets in Abuja at its national secretariat where among others it will elect a new chairman for the board of trustees along with a secretary.
Traditionally, the board of trustees has served as an advisory body of elders and leaders considered as the conscience of the party.
Already, Chief Sam Nkire, an APC leader in Abia State and the former national chairman of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, has declared his interest to become the secretary of the board. Chief Bisi Akande, the first interim national chairman of the party, is expected to no longer be interested in becoming board of trustees' chairman, opening up a contest.
APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said that tomorrow’s meeting will be followed by one of the party’s national caucus on Tuesday, March 22.
He added that a meeting of the APC national executive committee (NEC), which is the party’s highest decision making body, will then hold on Thursday, March 24.
According to Chief Odigie-Oyegun, all arrangements have also been concluded to conduct congresses through which a substantive national publicity secretary to succeed Alhaji Lai Mohammed would emerge.
Elections to fill all the vacant positions in the party’s national working committee would be ratified atthe NEC meeting.
I will urge the APC to look towards Atiku Abubakar for the vacant position of the Chairman of the Board of Trustee of the party because of his experience both politically and otherwise.
ReplyDeleteI believe he will help bring stability to the party and equally help mend the cracks between party members.
Well said but don't you see Atiku as unstable party man? @Mazi Daniels
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