{"id":92774,"date":"2022-03-14T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=92774"},"modified":"2022-03-14T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T10:14:08","slug":"why-osinbajo-shelved-todays-meeting-with-apc-state-chairmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/why-osinbajo-shelved-todays-meeting-with-apc-state-chairmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Osinbajo shelved today\u2019s meeting with APC state chairmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday postponed his planned meeting with all the state chairmen of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC who had converged on Abuja Pointblanknews.com had gathered.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe meeting would have been the major contact of the Vice President with party chieftains from across the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sources said the meeting was planned ahead of Osinbajo\u2019s formal declaration for the presidency, which would have put paid to all speculations around his presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources said the meeting planned to hold today (Monday) at the Villa was shelved because of a directive from the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Pointblanknews.com learnt that accommodation had been reserved for the state APC chairmen while some of them had already arrived Abuja ahead of the meeting before it was abruptly shelved.<\/p>\n<p>APC sources in Lagos, Kano, Enugu, Kaduna, Osun, Cross River, Adamawa, Bauchi, among others, said they were aware of the meeting with Osinbajo and had mobilised for it.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the APC in Kaduna who is familiar with the development said the meeting was shelved after rumours began to fly that the vice president was planning to use the chairmen to promote his political ambition.<\/p>\n<p>The APC Chairman in Cross River State, Barrister Alphonsus Ogar Eba confirmed that he was invited to Abuja to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State attending a colleague\u2019s social event when he received the invite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I speak with you, I am inside an aircraft to Abuja to attend a meeting with the presidency. I am told the meeting is called off or put on hold but I am inside an aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bauchi State Chairman of the APC, Alhaji Babayo Ali Misau, through the Publicity Secretary of the party, Adamu Aliyu Jallah also confirmed that he was invited for the meeting with Osinbajo.<\/p>\n<p>A credible source within the APC in Adamawa State told our reporter that the state Chairman of the party, Ibrahim Bilal was in Abuja to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>A party source in Kano told our correspondent that their Chairman, Abdullahi Abbas, was also in Abuja.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/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>The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday postponed his planned meeting with all the state chairmen of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC who had converged on Abuja Pointblanknews.com&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":42718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92774","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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