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THE scheduled meeting of 21 presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja could not hold, yesterday, despite series of pre-event publicity in the days leading to the parley.<\/div>\n
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\nThe roundtable earlier slated for 2pm at Transcorp Hilton, was for the aspirants to come up with viable strategies to support the APC standard bearer, Bola Tinubu, to win the February presidential election.<\/p>\n

Although no official reason was given for the postponement of the meeting, it was gathered that most of the aspirants who were invited to the parley were non-committal.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Convener of the meeting, Dr Nicolas Felix, had earlier said the aspirants had indicated their readiness to attend the meeting.<\/p>\n

However, in a message sent to one of the aspirants and seen by Pointblanknews.com, Felix implied that the meeting had been postponed indefinitely.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nThe message reads; \u201cGood day your Excellency. Please be informed that the strategic meeting of 2023 Presidential Aspirants of the All Progressives Congress, APC, scheduled to hold on Wednesday, the 31st of August has be postponed.<\/p>\n

\u201cA new date for the meeting will be communicated soon. Apologies for any inconvenience(s) that this might cause. Stay blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n

However Pointblanknews.com gathered that some of the aspirants did not communicate their readiness to attend the meeting.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nThe source, who spoke in confidence, said: \u201cVice President Yemi Osinbajo has travelled. Senate President Ahmad Lawan did not formally respond to the invitation, likewise former Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi.\u201d<\/div>\n
\nSuggesting that there could be cracks within the ranks of the presidential aspirants, especially with regards to Tinubu\u2019s candidacy, the source said the party\u2019s standard bearer still has a lot of reaching out to do.<\/p>\n

Another source said: \u201cIt seems some of these aspirants are yet to come to terms with our presidential candidate because some of them are not seen to be rallying the needed support for the party yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of them were well informed about this meeting. The organisers even sent out public statements twice to remind them but some did not show interest at all.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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