PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES FIVE APC GOVERNORS.3B. R-L; President Muammadu Buhari with five APC Governors among whom are Chairman Nigerian Governors Forum and Zamfara State Governor Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, Chairman APC Governor's Forum and Imo State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Kano State Governor Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Plateau Stae Governor, Mr Simon Lanlong at the Presidential Villa Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. APRIL 4 2018.
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No crisis in APC, says Govs…’We will abide by party constitution and hold ward congresses’

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Five governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says there is no crack in the party over the tenure elongation of Chief John Oyegun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

The governors met with President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday morning with a resolve to abide by the party’s constitution and hold ward congresses.

Tuesday meeting with the President had ended in deadlock.

The governors of Zamfara, Abdulazeez Yari, Plateau, Simon Lalong, Imo, Rochas Okorocha, Kano, Abdullahi Ganduje and Ogun Ibikunle Amosun, briefed State House Correspondents at the end of the meeting which held in the office of the president.

According to Yari, “Gentlemen of the press, you know yesterday we left you in the dark after the meeting and today we have seen so many captions that there is disagreement between the governors over the issue of party Chairman or about the party leadership.

“No. We had a meeting with Mr. President yesterday (Tuesday), and we extended the meeting to night and we followed up with the consultations with the President now.

“We consulted and all the 24 governors of the APC are in the same page with Mr. President that we are going to respect our party constitution, we are going to respect the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. So therefore, we collectively agreed that we will have congresses at all levels – Local – State and National.

“So, there is no deadlock in our meeting, we have progressed and very soon you will have the names of the convention committee members as well as the timetable.”

Okorocha on his part said, “I just want to let you know that there is no crisis in the APC at all. And we want to use this opportunity to advise the media operatives to stop spreading rumors of crisis in APC. There is no single crisis in APC.

“The issue was one of people who believe that we did not have enough time to organize a party congress and run election. Some people felt that it was a good idea but the most important thing is that, if we do that we will be contravening both our party constitution and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. That is the major issue that we have that they call crisis. We do not have crisis.

 

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