Lalong, Akeredolu, APC govs meet in Abuja

The Director Common of the Tinubu-Shettima Marketing campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, is at the moment assembly with the Governors of the All Progressive Congress.

The closed-door assembly, which additionally has administrators of the marketing campaign council in attendance, is going down on the PCC Headquarters in Abuja.

Though the agenda for the assembly was not disclosed, the event is coming hours after a strategic planning committee of the identical council met earlier this night in Abuja to assessment its rising membership listing.

The assembly, chaired by the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, didn’t begin on time as earlier scheduled as a result of some members got here late.

A supply informed our correspondent that the explanation for the political roundtable was hinged on the necessity to correctly vet the nominees’ listing to keep away from one other backlash as witnessed within the outrage of aggrieved All Progressives Congress governors and members of the Nationwide Working Committee after the listing was unveiled.

This was additionally confirmed by the PCC Director of Media and Communications, Bayo Onanuga, who informed The PUNCH that the assembly was referred to as by Lalong to “take one other take a look at the listing.”

“However it’s an inner assembly. It’s simply to take one other take a look at the marketing campaign listing so folks don’t complain once more. That’s the agenda of the assembly,” he stated.

Nevertheless, no member of the NWC, together with the Nationwide Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was current at Tuesday’s assembly of the strategic planning committee.

When requested if any NWC member must be on the assembly, the supply acknowledged that until an association was agreed on, additionally they held delicate positions within the newly constituted marketing campaign council.

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