– Two politicians will meet with the national caucus
of the ruling party on Tuesday
Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), and Atiku Abubakar,
former vice-president, are reportedly in a battle for
the chairmanship of the party’s Board of Trustees,
which would be chosen on March 22.
Daily Trust reports that members of the BoT are
already forming queues behind two leaders of the
ruling party.
Sources said the meeting would be used to choose
both the chairman and secretary of the board, which
is an advisory body of elders and leaders considered
as the conscience of the party.
Chief Sam Nkire, a leader of the APC in Abia state,
had already announced his interest to become the
secretary of the APC’s BoT.
It is a sign that the first interim national chairman of
the party, Chief Bisi Akande, may no longer
participate in the party’s BoT chairmanship contest.
The party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-
Oyegun, confirmed tomorrow’s meeting after
resuming from a 10-day working break.
The APC has worked without an official BoT since the
fusion of the different political parties in 2014 that
gave rise to the ruling party, even as the BoT
members have been appointed.
The two candidates who have intensified lobbying
for the position are expected to meet with the
national caucus of the party who would meet on
March 21.
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