BEVERLY HILLS, May 24, (THEWILL) – Governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC), under the auspices of the Progressives Governors Forum, on Wednesday, met with the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party and gave the APC government in the country a pass mark, saying “we have done well”
Plateau state governor, Simon Lalong, briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting which was Chaired by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Oyegun, said the problem facing the party will soon be a thing of the past, adding that the party now has reasons to smile.
Lalong said the meeting, attended by about nine governors and six deputies, reviewed the situation in the party and resolved to take issue concerning the party more seriously henceforth.
“The purpose of this meeting was to review our party activities and to talk about preparations for our second year anniversary,” he said accompanied by the Niger stage governor, Sani Bello and the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi.
“The meeting took a total review of the activities so far and the performance of party in the various states where we have APC government and came to the conclusion that so far so good, we are doing very well.
“That was essentially the purpose of this meeting. We also agreed that this meeting will be on a monthly basis. We started last month, today is another meeting and next month will be another meeting.
“The issue of National Convention was raised and it was part of the decisions we took at the last meeting. Unfortunately, like you already know, the President is not around and he is the leader of the party.
“So what we have done is that since we have an acting president, the team that was supposed to meet with the President with a suggested date convenient, the same team should meet with the Acting President.
“We are going to organise a convention which is constitutional and the leader of the party must also be at the convention. The time we agreed to meet with the President, he had to travel out of the country and now, the Acting President is around. The first approach was to the President and now, we all agreed that if the President is not there, there is an acting president and so, we are going to meet with him to agree on a date for the convention.
“During our last meeting, we had issues, but today, things have changed and people are smiling. The party is even smiling. So, those challenges have been taken over by events. That is why I told you that even if we were backward before, now, we are taking issues of our party seriously and we are meeting on monthly basis. So, issues like that are no longer issues in APC.
“Part of the conclusion of the meeting was a report on the issues and disagreement in some states such as Bauchi and Kogi. The party report d that they have invited those people and those issues are almost resolved.”
Governors present include Simon Lalong of Plateau, Sani Bello of Niger, Mohammed Abubabar of Bauchi, Godwin Obaseki of Edo, Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina, Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa, Samuel Orton of Benue and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state.
Six deputy governors of Kwara, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Nasarawa States also attended the meeting.
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