The All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded arrangements to ensure that the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BOT) of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff emerges chairman of the BOT of the APC.<\/p>\n
The merging parties met for two days last week for a \u2018special national caucus\u2019 at the Transcorp Hotel, Abuja to fine tune details of the merger which they hope to submit to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) soon.<\/p>\n
The meeting was attended by all governors of the merging parties as well as the leadership of the various committees on the merger set up by the respective parties.<\/p>\n
It was learnt that the national chairmen of the merging parties, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu of ANPP, Prince Tony Momoh of CPC and Chief Bisi Akande of the ACN also attended the meeting.<\/p>\n
Also at the closed-door meeting were CPC national leader and former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and his ACN counterpart, former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Senator Sherrif and high a ranking All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) official representing a faction of the party among other \u2018key and critical\u2019 stakeholders.<\/p>\n
Reliable sources told Daily Trust that the issue of making Sherriff the BOT chairman came up as the merging parties deliberated on the list to forward to INEC as its interim exco.<\/p>\n
Both the ACN and the CPC were said to have shown more interest in the chairmanship and secretary positions while some suggested that since Sheriff is the chairman of the BOT of the ANPP, he should be allowed to continue in that capacity in the new arrangement.<\/p>\n
Souces say while there were other contenders for the other position, the fact that nobody countered the nomination of Sheriff or suggested another name makes the former Borno governor set to clinch the position.<\/p>\n
Apart from Sherrif issue, it was also learnt that the meeting also deliberated on which zone should have the presidential ticket as well as other key offices like the national chairman and secretary.<\/p>\n
There were suggestions that the APC should zone the presidential ticket to the North, vice presidential candidate to South-South, national chairman to South West, national secretary to the South East, while there was also an arrangement for five or six national vice chairmen to balance the six geo-political zones of the country.<\/p>\n
There was no decision yet on where the deputy national chairman and deputy national secretary will be zoned to.<\/p>\n
It was equally learnt that leaders at the meeting are moving to meet the June target they set for themselves to formalise the APC registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n
Officials of the party when contacted said they were not in a position to comment on the issue yet as they were still deliberating on it.<\/p>\n
Daily Trust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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