Adamu, while speaking with newsmen Tuesday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat, said the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) was not informed of the positions.
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The new Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum succeeds former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State.
You will all recall that APC came to power at the center in 2015 through a cohesive machinery, notwithstanding its status as the opposition party.
The meeting, according to available information, took place in the late hours of Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Following the meeting, the Governors have agreed to support the candidate presented by President Buhari.
Recall that Lukman had accused the party leadership of extorting aspirants ahead of the March 26 National Convention and also asked that Bello be prevented from getting the presidential ticket of the party, alleging that Bello had yet to commence payment of N30,000 minimum wage as announced and that workers were earning 25 per cent of their salaries.
It was learnt that although the APC Governors met on Sunday to discuss the National Convention, they also deliberated on the DG
The DG of the platform of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, made the demand in a letter.
Lukman said this in a public letter to the leaders of the APC on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the development.
Chairman of Progressive Governors’ Forum, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, confirmed this development to State House correspondents at the end of a closed door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Monday.
The twin issues had divided the members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, leading to a late night meeting.
In 2019, the Director-General, Progressives Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, supported direct primaries for selecting parties’ candidates
The governor, who spoke in an interview with THISDAY, said he only learnt of the money after the governorship poll
On October 1, 2021, Nigeria’s sixty-first independence anniversary, President Muhammadu Buhari, in a national broadcast, acknowledged that “the past eighteen…
Lukman said the significant increase in VAT in the country between 2015 and 2020 confirmed improved efficiency and reduced corruption in the process of collection and management of Nigeria’s public finances.
He also chided those ‘leaders’ and clerics who criticize the federal government’s approach at fighting insurgency and banditry, and seem to furtively support criminality.
In an opinion article entitled ‘Narrow Politics and Questions of Democratic Development’, Lukman said it is disappointing that a sitting governor and retired public servants could be promoting “wild goose” campaigns, adding that those doing so, including a sitting governor, are exhibiting what he called “morbid symptoms.”
The PGF Chairman, Alhaji Abubakar Bagudu, said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja while welcoming Ayade, who just defected from his party, Peoples Democratic Party, to the APC.
If anything, the lesson from the 2019 elections, which every APC leader and member should be reminded, is that APC was defeated in Rivers, Zamfara, Bauchi, Adamawa, Oyo and many other places by aggrieved APC leaders who worked against candidates or leaders of the party as a result of internal disagreements around candidate selections for Governorship of these states.
The 13-member Convention Working Committee was appointed by an emergency National Executive Committee meeting of June 25, 2020, under the leadership of Governor Mai Mala Buni, with initial tenure of six months, which was extended by another emergency NEC meeting of December 8, 2020 to June 2021.