Nigeria: Buhari, APC Governors to Decide New Date for National Convention

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari and the governors elected on the platform of the APC will decide a new date for the party’s National Convention.
THISDAY gathered that this development followed the clash of the February 26 proposed date for the exercise with some off-season elections earlier scheduled by the INEC.

A source close to the APC National Caretaker Committee told THISDAY at the weekend that the clash of the proposed convention with the national elections was brought to the attention of the party after it had written to notify  INEC of its intention to hold the national convention.
“Elections are national issues that cut across political parties and therefore, it is not expected that party affairs should overshadow national elections. The stakeholders will meet and come up with a new date not beyond two to three weeks,” the source explained
On whether INEC has been notified, the source said that the electoral body would be notified after the proposed meeting between Buhari,  the APC governors and the members of the caretaker committee.

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