The 21 governors within the All Progressives Congress (APC) will meet in Abuja on Tuesday to debate the get together’s zoning components forward of the March 26 nationwide conference, TheCable can report.
An inventory of all of the get together’s nationwide positions together with the geo-political zones to fill them was broadly printed within the media, together with TheCable, after the governors’ assembly with President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, some governors are mentioned to be kicking towards the record as a result of it doesn’t mirror the end result of the assembly with the president.
“The one factor the president mentioned on the assembly was that we should always undertake the consensus methodology to select the nationwide chairman and that the place ought to go the north-central. That was all. No person mentioned every other place,” a northern governor informed TheCable.
“If you happen to seen, no one signed the record that’s going spherical within the media. It was not attributed to anyone. Governor Nasir el-Rufai mentioned the north and the south would swap positions, however the record shouldn’t be even reflective of this.
“Beneath a swap association, the observe is north-east for south-east, north-west for south-west, and north-central for south-south, and vice-versa. That’s the why the chairman will come from north-central because it was south-south the final day out. And that’s the solely factor we’ve got agreed to date.
“If it’s a swap, the nationwide secretary ought to come from the south-east, not the south-west because the record suggests, as a result of the earlier nationwide secretary was from the north-east.”
An APC senator additionally faulted the zonal congresses scheduled for March 12.
“Zonal congresses are alien to the present APC structure. They’re contained within the proposed modification to our structure, which may solely be adopted on the March 26 conference after which it is going to turn into operational. Holding zonal congresses earlier than the amended structure is ratified quantities to illegality,” he informed TheCable.
It’s understood that this can even be mentioned by the APC governors at their assembly.
The conference was initially scheduled for February 26 however shifted by a month.
Going by the timetable for the 2023 common election, events are anticipated to select their legislative, governorship and presidential candidates by June 3, 2022.