All may not be well in the camp of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) as a consultative meeting between the Governors on the platform of
the party and the National Working Committee (NWC) scheduled to hold
yesterday was postponed.
National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, who confirmed
cancellation of the meeting, to discuss the oft-postponed national
convention of the party, in addition to the 2019 general elections time
table released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),
said they only got text messages.
“We got text messages that the meeting will not hold again but, no
reason was given for the development. However, I want to inform you that
we have arranged series of meetings next week,” said Abdullahi.
Despite the cancellation, Osun State Deputy Governor, Grace Titi
Laoye-Tomori, who stormed the headquarters of the party about 4: 25pm,
to stand in for her governor, expressed disappointment that she did not
receive any information about the postponement.
The deputy governor kicked against poor communication on the meeting
to party staff: “We came all the way from Osun and we were not told that
the meeting has been postponed.”
Daily Sun gathered that the main reason the meeting was postponed was
because “most governors expressed reservations in participating in a
meeting to discuss tenure elongation for the NWC.”
A source at the party secretariat claimed that the Progressives
Governors Forum got wind of NWC plans to lobby them for tenure
elongation at the meeting.
“By cancelling the meeting, the governors were avoiding illegality of
tenure elongation which the NWC is asking for, although they pretended
that the meeting was meant to deliberate on state congresses and the
national convention.”