The party gave the charge in statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Malam Bolaji Abudullahi, on Friday in Abuja.
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A reliable source at the Presidency told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja that Buni secured the president’s endorsement at a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Monday night.
He gave the charge on Monday in Abuja while inaugurating the chairmen, who were recently elected, and said that their responsibility was to nurture the party to victory in their respective states.
Uwajumogu told newsmen on Saturday in Abuja that he took the decision for personal reasons to attend to some family issues.
The campaign council, which was inaugurated by the APC Deputy National Chairman (North), Senator Lawali Shuaibu, on behalf of the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has fourteen serving governors, ministers, some members of the party’s National Working Committee, National Assembly members and senior party leaders.
According to the group, to douse the tension in the party following the declarations of the duo of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and Comrade Adams Oshiomole for the position of the National Chairman, it is imperative for the APC to consider a neutral candidate to steer the affairs of the party.
Abubakar said this in Bauchi while fielding questions from newsmen immediately after the party’s state congress that ended in consensus.
He also said that he had the capacity to bring lasting peace to the party and to ensure that it continued in power in 2019 and beyond.
Listed as defendants are: Odigie-Oyegun, Mr Segun Oni, Deputy National Chairman (South) and Senator Lawal Shaibu, Deputy National Chairman (North).
Giving the document to the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in Abuja, the committee’s Chairman, Governor Simon Dalung of Plateau State, urged the party leadership to painstakingly study the recommendations.
Buhari had at the party´s National Executive Committee meeting of March 27 in Abuja, said NWC’s tenure extension decided at NEC’s meeting on February 27 was illegal and unconstitutional.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the governors kept sealed lips as they came out of the Council Chamber where they met with the President for over an hour.
The plaintiff, Ademorin Kioye, led some other members of the party to file the suit after the party extended the tenure of NWC by one year.
The State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Gboyega Oguntuase, stated this in reaction to a statement made in Ado Ekiti on Monday by the APC National Chairman that the forthcoming July 14, 2018 Ekiti governorship election was a must win for the party and that every available resources will be deployed to win the election.
The move followed the decision of the National Executive Council of the party to conduct a nationwide continuous membership registration exercise to enable all prospective eligible persons register as members of the party.
The chairman explained that the decision was to give the party room to face the serious task ahead, especially the 2019 general elections.
The Eagle Online gathered that other national leaders and all the six state governors slated to attend the party’s rally were also absent.
President Muhammadu Buhari had a fortnight ago named Tinubu as the coordinator of the reconciliation of aggrieved members of the APC.
The foundation had a few weeks ago distributed Toyota Sienna buses to deserving transporters in the state under its youth empowerment scheme at a well attended ceremony, which had in attendance Chief John Odige-Oyegun, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.
Odigie-Oyegun said this on Tuesday at a mega rally organised by the Abia State chapter of the party at the Umuahia Township Stadium to welcome a host of defectors from other parties to the APC