President Muhammadu Buhari is
currently meeting with some governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The meeting, holding at the
presidential villa, Abuja, is believed to be regarding the party’s
controversial primary elections.
The party had conducted
governorship and senatorial elections across the states but the exercise was
riddled with controversies, leading to its cancellation in states like Imo and
Zamfara.
The decision to offer automatic
ticket to some lawmakers did not go down well with some governors.
The president had on Wednesday
night met with Rotimi Akeredolu and Nasir el-Rufai, governors of Ondo and
Kaduna states respectively, over the same matter.
Uba Sani, el-Rufai preferred
candidate for Kaduna central senatorial district, was disqualified by the
national working committee (NWC) of the party while Shehu Sani, who has a
running battle with the governor, was given automatic ticket.
In Ondo, Tunji Abayomi, an
associate of Akeredolu was screened out while Ajayi Borrofice, who is not on
the same page with the governor, was given an automatic ticket to return to the
senate.
Akeredolu had described the NWC
action as unconstitutional, saying the committee declared war on the APC.
Among the governors at the
ongoing meeting are Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara), Rochas Okorocha (Imo) and
Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun).
In Zamfara, the NWC panel
cancelled the primary following violence involving aspirants and some state
government officials.
Kabi Marafa, a senator who is
among the aspirants, had accused the governor of setting the state on fire.
In Imo, Okorocha suffered setback
in his bid to make Uche Nwosu, his son-in-law clinch the APC ticket for the
2019 election.
There was also crisis in Ogun as
the NWC panel postponed the primary election but the state chapter of the
ruling party held an exercise and declared Abiodun Akinlade, the governor’s
candidate winner.
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