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A special meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be held today in Abuja.
The committee is most likely to reschedule the postponed National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings of the party for Wednesday and Thursday.
The Nation gathered yesterday that the NWC will present the agenda for the NEC meeting to President Bola Tinubu tomorrow.
A key component of the proposal, according to an NWC member, is the recommendation of former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje and ex-Senate Spokesman Ajibola Basiru as acting chairman and secretary respectively of the ruling party
Another major part of the agenda is the reviewed membership of the party’s five statutory committees. This will also be presented to the NEC next week.
Today’s meeting will also discuss the recent development in the NWC following yesterday’s resignation of Salihu Lukman as the national vice-chairman (Northwest).
The NWC source said: ”The NWC meeting on Thursday(today) will take far-reaching decisions on the postponed National Caucus and NEC meetings. We are to prepare an agenda that will be presented to the President on Friday for both Caucus and NEC meetings.
“The meeting will also be reviewing the lists of memberships of the five statutory committees to be presented to NEC for approval at its next meeting.
”From the proposal by the Secretariat, which we shall deliberate on tomorrow (today), the NWC is proposing 2nd and 3rd August for the Caucus and NEC meetings which shall be presented to the President by the Acting Chairman and acting Secretary tomorrow at the Villa.”
On Lukman’s resignation, he said: “Some of us were shocked by the development. I know it will be one of the major things that we (NWC) shall discuss today.”
In his letter of resignation sighted by The Nation yesterday, Lukman said his decision was because “the atmosphere in the party is completely at variance with the founding vision of forming a progressive party.”
A part of the one-page letter reads: ”Rather than remaining in the leadership of the party and becoming a source of distraction for leaders and especially for the young government of President Bola Tinubu, it is better to excuse myself and take time off from politics.
“I will however retain my membership of the party in the hope that our leaders, especially President Bola Tinubu will retract from acts that will be unjust and illegal, which is crucial to any claim of being democratic or progressive whether as politicians or as patriotic Nigerians.
“I do hope all our leaders will appreciate that I am left with no option in the circumstance. I wish the party and all our leaders, especially President Tinubu all the best and will continue to give my modest support towards the success of the party from the background.”
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