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No Going Back On March 26 Convention Date – APC Governors

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Mar 1, 2022.

Recall that the new date for the APC Convention was fixed after a meeting between the governors and President Muhammadu Buhari
…the new date for the APC Convention was fixed after a meeting between the governors and President Muhammadu Buhari last week

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) and Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu, has said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will not shift the March 26 convention date despite the change in the timetable for the 2023 general elections.

Recall that the new date for the APC Convention was fixed after a meeting between the governors and President Muhammadu Buhari last week.

He said this Tuesday while fielding questions from State House reporters after a meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

The timetable released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday after the President signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022 into law last Friday, putting political parties under pressure to meet the timeline set for primaries.

Bagudu said the governors met with the president to congratulate him for signing the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and as well on the victory of the APC in some of the by-elections conducted over the weekend.

President Buhari had signed the bill into law on Friday after several back and forths with the National Assembly over some of its controversial provisions.

The APC governors at the meeting included Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Aminu Masari (Katsina), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna), Abubakar Badaru (Jigawa), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Hope Uzodinma (Imo), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), Sani Bello (Niger), Umar Ganduje (Kano), and the outgoing deputy governor of Anambra State, Nkem Okeke.

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