{"id":100018,"date":"2022-10-06T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=100018"},"modified":"2022-10-06T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:56:00","slug":"2023-crisis-in-apc-as-nwc-pgf-pcc-fail-to-agree-on-campaign-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-crisis-in-apc-as-nwc-pgf-pcc-fail-to-agree-on-campaign-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Crisis in APC as NWC, PGF, PCC fail to agree on Campaign kick-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m81299\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seven days after lifting of lid on political campaigns for 2023 elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indications emerged Wednesday that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is not ready yet to kick off the exercise.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Despite a crucial closed door meeting held Wednesday between six governors of APC and some members the National Working Committee (NWC) led by the party\u2019s national chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, and the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC at the party&#8217;s national secretariat, aimed at resolving issues surrounding the composition of the Presidential Campaign Council, it appeared no resolution or compromise was reached.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recall that the Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council and Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong had met with other campaign members on Tuesday in Abuja also as part of move to resolve the issue as it appeared that governors, NWC and other stakeholders of the party were still working at cross-purposes, hence the delay for a new list and inauguration of the team.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Addressing journalists at the end of the meeting, National Chairman, Adamu, insisted that the party will be the one to determine when the campaign will commence.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Adamu said: &#8220;We are very very comfortable, we have established machinery for resolving anything, we are together with the governors forum and NWC. I believe this meeting we had is more than useful to us. For us nothing short of victory and that is the spirit of this meeting.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be faster than the.. whatever you want to have so much in a hurry you may be&#8230; The fact of the matter is, we as a party, as APC we will determine when we will do what as long as it is within the framework of INEC&#8217;s guidelines.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Also speaking, the chairman of Progressive Governors Forum, PGF, Atiku Bagudu, alluded that though the list released by the PCC was done in error, efforts are on the way sort out the mistake.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We are happy that we are discussing even though there were list that are yet to be announced but I am happy that the party is solidly behind our candidate and our party and whatever lists that have come out erroneously, we believe it will be sorted out,&#8221; Bagudu alluded.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Those who attended the meeting included Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa), Simon Lalong (Plateau), Sani Bello (Niger) and Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa) and a former national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven days after lifting of lid on political campaigns for 2023 elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, indications emerged Wednesday that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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