Governors of the All Progressives
Congress are meeting with the
President-elect, Muhammadu
Buhari, in Abuja on Tuesday, The
PUNCH has learnt.
The meeting, it was gathered,
would be the first to be attended
by the governors jointly since the
conduct of the March 28
presidential election which Buhari
won.
One of the governors, who spoke
on the condition of anonymity with
our correspondent in Abuja on
Sunday, said that the meeting
would also be attended by all the
APC governors-elect.
He said, “The APC governors,
serving and incoming, are to meet
GMB (Buhari) on Tuesday morning
in Abuja to pay a courtesy call on
him, formally congratulate him on
his electoral victory and make input
into the policy direction of the
administration ahead of the May 29
inauguration of the new
government.
“Ahead of the Tuesday meeting, the
governors would hold a meeting
on Monday evening in Abuja where
we would firm up our presentation
to the President-elect.”
The National Publicity Secretary of
the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
who said he was not aware of the
meeting, however, stated that it
was possible.
He said he had been busy with the
work of the transition committee
set up by Buhari.
Mohammed said, “Yes, the meeting
is possible but I have been busy
with the committee’s work.”
It was learnt that the governors
might demand that they be
allowed to nominate those to be
appointed ministers in their states.
Apart from this, the governors are
also expected to make their
position known on which zone to
be supported for the office of the
Senate President.
It was gathered that the governors
would demand that they be
allowed to nominate who should
become the Senate President.
Despite the fact that two of the
governors contested the
presidential primaries against
Buhari, majority of the governors
supported his candidacy.
After Buhari’s emergence as the
party’s standard bearer, the
governors wanted one of them as
his running mate, but when the lot
fell on Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN),
they bowed to party supremacy
and supported the GMB/PYO ticket.
It was gathered that the governors
felt that they should be allowed to
present the next Senate President
since they had not collectively got
anything since the formation of the
APC.
Buhari emerged from the old All
Nigeria Peoples Party and the
defunct Congress for Progressives
Change block while Osinbajo
emerged from the defunct Action
Congress of Nigeria block.
The governors believed that they
played a prominent role in the
merger that led to the formation of
the APC.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
