President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the decision of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to postpone the party’s national convention earlier scheduled to hold this Saturday by a minimum of two weeks, Hotmedia.ng has exclusively gathered.
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However, many stakeholders in the party who are agitating that the convention should hold on to its original scheduled date of February 26 are accusing the committee of mischief and an attempt to perpetuate itself in office.
Inside sources in the ruling APC say the party has made arrangements to postpone its forthcoming convention According to the sources, a proposal will be made to the president asking for a two weeks extension The move is to enable the party adequately prepare for the convention and sort out issues related to the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled for Saturday, February 26 may not be held on that day after all.
According to a report by ThisDay newspaper, the convention will be postponed by two weeks. The Buni-led caretaker committee of the APC is set to remain in office for another two weeks.
Though there is no formal announcement yet, a very reliable party quoted in the report said that the leaders of the APC and state governors would meet President Muhammadu Buhari to propose a new date, which is likely to be Saturday, March 12.
“The convention has been postponed by two weeks but it is not official yet. The caretaker committee and the governors will meet with the President on Saturday (today) to propose the new date.”
Also, a former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, who pleaded for anonymity, said it was already clear that the convention would not hold, adding that: “There are some things that needed to be done for the convention to hold as scheduled on February 26 and most of them had not been done, with few days to February 26.”
The source stressed that, for instance, one of the things that ought to have been done was zoning of party offices.
He continued: “People have not bought forms and people cannot buy forms if the zoning is not done, and forms cannot come out until the zoning is done. That is when aspirants will know what kind of forms they are buying. If you don’t know the zoning, you can’t buy a form.
