BREAKING: APC Rules Out Consensus, Chooses Mode For Presidential Primary
The All Progressives Congress (APC)'s presidential flagbearer will emerge through an indirect primary election.
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This was one of the decisions made on Wednesday, April 20, by the Abdullahi Adamu-led leadership of the APC at the party’s 11th National Executive Committee meeting held in Transcorp Hotel in Abuja, Punch reports.
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APC fixes cost of presidential, governorship forms
Meanwhile, the APC had pegged the amount for its presidential form at the cost of 100 million.
The expression of interest form was fixed at N30 million, while the nomination form will go for N70 million.
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This was part of the decision reached during the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held on Wednesday, April 20, in Abuja, Nigerian Tribune reports. The sale of forms of the ruling party will commence on April 22, 2022.
Buhari, Osinbajo, APC chairman, bigwigs in crucial Abuja meeting
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo were said to be in a meeting of the NEC of the APC at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
APC governors, state chairmen, former governors, and a lot of other party chieftains are also in attendance.
It was believed that the meeting would ratify a date for the party’s presidential primaries and the method of choosing its flagbearer.
The APC had fixed Wednesday, April 20, for its first national executive committee meeting since the emergence of the new National Working Committee (NWC).
Felix Morka, the spokesperson of the party, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, April 15, said the meeting would take place in Abuja.
Truth at last as APC chairman reveals identity of chieftains tearing party apart
Serving and past governors on the platform of the APC had been accused of being behind the crisis rocking the ruling party.
This allegation was made on Wednesday, April 20, by Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the APC national chairman, during the party's 11th National Executive Committee meeting taking place at the Transcorp Hotel in Abuja.
According to Adamu, the refusal of some governors and their predecessors to work with unity of purpose was tearing the party apart.
Having said this, the APC boss made it clear that governors are leaders of the party in their states, adding that the constitution does not allow dual leadership.
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