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  • APC approves Zoning Committee ahead of National Convention

    APC approves Zoning Committee ahead of National Convention

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has approved a zoning committee, ahead of the March 26 National Convention.

    Sen. John Akpanudodehe, the National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.

    Akpanudodehe said that Gov. AbdulRahaman AbdulRazak of Kwara would head the committee which has Deputy President of the Senate, Ovie Omo-Agege as Deputy Chairman.

    He named other members to include Mrs Nkem Okeke, the Anambra Deputy Governor who would serve the Secretary, as well as Prof. Etim Nyong, Alhaji Mustapha Salihu, Sen. Teslim Folarin and Alhaji Sadeeq Sule-Iko Sami.

    Akpankudohede said the committee was expected to submit its report to the APC leadership on Monday, March 7.

  • APC CECPC appoints Zonal Congress Committees

    APC CECPC appoints Zonal Congress Committees

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on Thursday, appointed committees for March 12, Zonal Congresses.

    Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC CECPC, said this in a statement in Abuja.

    “The chairmen of the committees are all members of the CECPC, while secretaries are selected from amongst the Deputy Governors from their respective geo-political zones.

    “Meetings of zonal stakeholders holds on Saturday, Feb. 26, at the respective geo-political zones,’’ Akpanudoedehe said.

    According to the list released by the National Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Bello will chair the North Central committee; Sen. Yusuf Yusuf, North-East and Sen. Abba Ali, North-West.

    Also, Sen. Ken Nnamani would chair the South-East congress committee; Mr David Lyon, South-South and Aknremi Olaide, South-West.

    The APC zonal congresses will elect zonal party leaders before the National Convention slated for March 26.

    New national executives are expected to be elected at the convention to manage the affairs of the party which currently managed by Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC.

  • APC announces date for Osun governorship primaries

    APC announces date for Osun governorship primaries

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it plans to conduct the primary election for the July 16 Osun governorship election on Feb. 19.

    Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

    “In accordance with the provisions of the amended Electoral Act 2010 and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines.

    “The APC has released a revised timetable and schedule of activities for the conduct of the 2022 Governorship Primary Election in Osun,” he said.

    Akpanudoedehe said the last day for submission of completed Expression of Interest and Nomination forms and accompanying documents at the party’s national secretariat would be on Wednesday, Feb. 9.

    He added that screening of aspirants would hold on Thursday, Feb. 10, while publication of claims and objections would take place on Saturday, Feb. 12 and screening Appeal would take place on Thursday, Feb. 15.

    He further added that Election Appeal would hold on Tuesday 22, Feb. 22.
    The APC began the sale of Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to aspirants on Thursday Nov. 18, 2021.

    The forms were sold at N22.5million, with the nomination form sold at N20 million, while the expression of interest form was sold at N2.5million.

    Female and physically challenged aspirants were however, to pay 50 per cent of the prescribed fees.

  • Convention: APC releases timetable, begins sale of forms Feb. 14

    Convention: APC releases timetable, begins sale of forms Feb. 14

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will begin the sale of forms to aspirants vying for its national offices ahead of the National Convention from Feb. 14.

    Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) announced this in a statement he issued on Wednesday in Abuja.

    “The APC CECPC at its 19th regular meeting on Wednesday Jan.19, 2022 at the party’s national secretariat considered and adopted the timetable/schedule of activities for the Feb.26, APC National Convention,” he said.

    According to him, the schedule of activities ahead of the party’s national convention is as seen below:

    “Receiving of the interim report of the National Reconciliation Committee, Jan. 31, 2022.

    “Consideration and adoption of Reports of State Congresses – Feb.2, 2022.

    “Inauguration of the State Executives – Feb. 03, 2022.

    “Sale of forms to all aspirants vying for National Offices at the APC National Secretariat, Feb. 14, 2022.

    “Submission of completed forms and accompanying documents at the APC National Secretariat on or before Feb.19, 2022.

    “Publication of Sub-Committees – Feb.19, 2022.

    “Screening of all aspirants vying for National Offices – Feb.20 – Feb. 22.

    “Screening Appeals to hear and resolve complaints arising from the screening exercise – Feb. 23, 2022.

    “Accreditation of all statutory and elected delegates to the National Convention – Feb. 24 to Feb. 25, 2022.

    “National Convention to elect National Officers to the National Executive Committee (NEC) – Feb 26, 2022

    “National Convention Appeal to hear and resolve complaints arising from the National Convention – Feb. 28, 2022”.

    The APC scribe at an interaction with newsmen at the party’s national secretariat, had earlier described as fake, reports that the party’s leadership had zoned its national chairmanship position to a particular zone.

    Akpankudohede said the report should be disregarded, adding that there was no decision on that.

    New national executives are expected to be elected at the party’s national convention to manage its affairs which is presently being managed by Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC.

  • APC National Convention will hold in February — Governors

    APC National Convention will hold in February — Governors

    The Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), an umbrella body of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has given assurance that the party’s National Convention will hold in February.

    Gov. Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi and Chairman of the PGF gave the assurance while speaking with journalists at the end of a closed door meeting on Sunday night in Abuja.

    Bagudu, who did not give a specific date for the event, said the February date as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari was sacrosanct and still feasible for the conduct of the event.

    He added that the APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), as an organ of the party, was in the best position to announce the specific date for the convention.

    “We are one group of stakeholders in the party and our party respects institutions. The appropriate organ of the party that will announce a date for the national convention is the CECPC,” he said.

    Bagudu said the meeting passed a vote of confidence on the Buni-led CECPC and two other governors, Gov. Muhammed Bello of Niger and Gov. Gboyega Oyetola of Osun.

    He noted that the governors had done an incredible job of running the party successfully and had mobilised people into the party fold, saying that the PGF was very happy with their conduct.

    “We discussed our upcoming convention which you may recall I had cause to address the press after we visited President Buhari in November 2021 where the president and the party agreed that the convention would take place in February.

    “We took inputs about the reviews and we noted all the misrepresentations in the press that we seek to correct that the PGF is one united body as you can see evidently from the attendance,” Bagudu said.

    He explained that the forum’s decision was unanimous, adding that it was united behind the president and the party’s caretaker committee.

    Recall that there has been immense pressure on the APC Buni-led CECPC to fix a specific date for the party’s national convention following Buhari’s approval that the event be held in February.

    Some of the party’s critical stakeholders had in the last few weeks engaged the caretaker committee over the delay to announce the venue and exact date for the convention.

    Dr Salihu Lukman, the PGF Director- General, recently called on members of the committee to resign their positions if they would not be able to conduct the party’s national convention in February.

    New members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) are expected to be elected at the convention to manage its affairs which was presently being managed by the CECPC.

    Those in attendance at the meeting included the Governors of Borno, Babagana Zulum, Jigawa, Mohammad Abubakar, Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, Niger Abubakar Bello, Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, Ekiti Kayode Fayemi, Kogi, Yahaya Bello.

    Others were the governors of Cross River, Ogun, Zamfara, Ebonyi, Osun, Lagos State, Imo, Plateau, Kano State and Nasarawa.

    The Deputy Governor of Anambra, Nkemakonam Okeke, represented his governor at the meeting.

  • 2023: Nigerians will still choose our party – APC scribe

    2023: Nigerians will still choose our party – APC scribe

    National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Sen. John Akpanudoedehe has said Nigerians will still choose his party over the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023.

    The APC scribe said this during a meeting with the party’s State Caretaker Chairmen in Abuja on Thursday when he stressed that the opposition PDP cannot return to power in a free and fair election in 2023.

    This, Sen. Akpanudoedehe said, was especially so, because the electorate were intelligent and now knew that the PDP had nothing to offer Nigerians going by its antecedents.

    The APC scribe added that the PDP was not an alternative to the APC in the forthcoming 2023 general election.

    He said the achievements of the APC-led administrations at the state and federal levels were glaring, adding that the PDP had no chance of convincing Nigerians to contemplate voting for it.

    Akpanudoedehe said that the sponsoring of some youths by fifth columnists and opposition agents to infiltrate and disorganise the APC had failed.

    He thanked the party’s state caretaker chairmen for being statesmen in their respective states and for standing up against youthful exuberance, noting that Nigerian youths were very brilliant and resourceful.

    Akpankudohede described the claim by PDP new national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu that the APC would not survive 2022 as false.

    “I learnt that the new PDP chairman made a prophecy that we will scatter before April 2022.

    “Let me send a message to PDP, if we are talking about replacing APC, it can never be the PDP because Nigerians are too intelligent.

    “Nigerians will still choose APC; talk is cheap, even when they sponsored crisis throughout Nigeria, we won most by-elections.

    “We inherited insurgency and we have dealt with it.

    “As we speak, not one inch of Nigeria’s territory is being taken over by any group; when PDP were in government, they took over everywhere, but today, it is different,” he said.

    The APC scribe said the successes recorded against insurgents, bandits and other criminal elements showed that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was working for the well-being of Nigerians.

    “Maybe because the president is not the talking type, I am challenging anyone to show me any social intervention programme better than this government.

    “People are collecting alerts for COVID-19 palliatives, youths, women, civil servants are collecting it,” Akpanudoedehe stated.

    Earlier in his remarks, the Caretaker Chairman of the Delta State APC Chapter, Mr Jones Erue, who spoke on behalf of others, said they came to express their absolute loyalty to the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC.

    He pledged the support of the APC State Caretaker Committee Chairmen to the Buni-led CECPC, adding that they would not accept any attempt to destabilise and change the party’s leadership unconstitutionally.

    “We don’t know the youths who claimed to have changed the leadership of the party, they are not part of us,” he said.

    Erue said the APC State Caretaker Chairmen were determined to ensure that the APC won all future elections at the Federal, States and Local Government Areas.

    He said the APC was greater than any individual, adding that its members should note that the party had mechanisms for checking agents of disorder.

    The APC State Caretaker Chairmen had earlier passed a vote of confidence on the Buni-led CECPC.

  • APC disowns Progressive Youth Movement

    APC disowns Progressive Youth Movement

    The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissociated itself from a group called Progressive Youth Movement, saying it was alien to the party.

    Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) said this in a statement in Abuja on Monday.

    “We have recieved several enquiries from the media and concerned APC members on the felonious activities of a purported group parading itself as Progressive Youth Movement.

    “The purported group and membership are unknown to the party, its structure or as a registered support group.

    “Hence, we completely disown them and cannot account for their activities or join issues with them,” the APC scribe said.

    He described as laughable the attempt by the group to usurp the leadership of the APC by claiming to have disolved the Gov. Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC.

    Akpanudoedehe stressed that relevant security bodies must check and address the unscrupulous activities of the group, adding that the attention the purported group sought, would not be given to it by the party.

    He advised the general public to disregard the group, saying that its members were not registered members of the APC.

    He added that members of the group were being used by opposition elements and fifth columnists to cause confusion in the party.

    “As widely reported, the successful meeting between the APC leadership, Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) and President Muhammadu Buhari produced February 2022 as the time frame for the party’s National Convention.

    “Our focus now is preparing the ground for a rancour-free excercise,“ he said.