At the Aso Rock Villa in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted 18 governors on the platform of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Issues that have plagued the party and caused internal strife are at the top of the agenda.
Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, who chairs the Progressive Governors Forum, said the meeting was aimed at mending the party’s cracks as a result of the wrangling that had polarized the party’s leadership.
Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, the Secretary of the APC’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), announced on Monday at the conclusion of the CECPC’s 20th regular meeting that the party’s zonal congresses would be held on March 12 and the convention on March 26.
Bugudu, speaking to reporters after a PGF meeting on Tuesday, said:
“We had briefings from the Chairman of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, Governor Mai-Mala Buni of Yobe State.
“And we discussed the meeting we are going to have with Mr. President today to further discuss the party’s convention.
“Until we finish the meeting with Mr President, we would not comment on any timetable and any logistics.
”All the APC Governors have met and as always, have appreciated the need to work together with the other stakeholders.
“We have always been humbled that we are not the only stakeholders of the party – to work with other stakeholders and to ensure that we deliver transparently, honestly, the national executive that will earn the confidence of all party members.
“First, we appreciate that Nigerians are interested in what the APC is doing because Nigerians gave us their mandate by electing us into offices and holding us in high esteem and we are very conscious of that”, he had said
