Following the inability of the governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to meet on Sunday in Abuja as part of efforts aimed at reaching an agreement over the party’s planned convention next month, the Caretaker Committee led by Governor Mai Mala Buni is, however, expected to meet on Wednesday over the matter.
The reasons for the inability of the governors to meet is not yet known as journalists who gathered outside the APC national secretariat and the Kebbi State Governor’s lodge where APC governors’ meetings usually hold were disappointed on Sunday as the expected meeting did not hold.
Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, who is also the Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, had said while briefing State House correspondents last Friday that APC governors would meet on Sunday with a view to deciding on a date for the convention.
But as TheEconomy reported on Saturday that the Director-General, Progressive Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, feigned ignorance of such a meeting, Mr. added that the forum does not call meetings on the pages of newspapers adding that Governor Lalong made those statements in error because he read in one of the papers that there would be a meeting.
“But the important thing is that definitely, consultation is going on and once the consultation is done and they decide on when the meeting will take place, I would be given the necessary directive to issue the appropriate notice to the governors.”