The Council Chamber normally hosts the meetings of the Federal Executive Council, National Council of State, National Economic Council and National Security Council, all of which are purely governmental affairs.
President Muhammadu Buhari and Chairman, APC Caretaker Committee, Governor of Yobe State, Mala Buni, today at the State House, Abuja. [PHOTO CREDIT: @BashirAhmaad]President Muhammadu Buhari has set a record as the first Nigerian leader to host the meeting of an organ of a political party in the Council Chambers of the State House, Abuja.
Top of its functions, according to Article 13.3 of the APC Constitution, are to summon and convene the national convention and prepare its agenda; exercise and take disciplinary actions on all organs, officers and members of the party and determine appeals brought before it by any member or organ of the party; and create, elect and appoint any committee it may deem necessary, desirable or expedient, and assign to them such powers, and functions as it may deem fit and prosper.
The meeting also ratified the party’s governorship primary in Edo State, which produced Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the winner and also directed members who instituted cases in court to withdraw them. Only once in 2008 did Mr Yar’Adua host a meeting of the PDP National Caucus at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre in the Central Business District of Abuja.Meetings of the national caucus comprising senior members of the party were held ahead of those of NEC and National Conventions.
The main opposition party accused the president of desecrating the sanctity of the nation’s seat of power.
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