The ruling All Progressives Congress has officially unveiled new officers to occupy the positions of the outgoing members of the National
“This is not a case of ratification. Don’t make an assumption. It is an election already done. You see, this is the constitution of our party Article 13 gave NEC the power to act in between and the convention. The same NEC at the meeting of August 3 empowered the NWC to act and exercise its power to fill the vacancies. What we have done is in accordance with the delegation of power from the NEC to acts as a convention to elect these people.
“On the other question you asked concerning the strategy put in place to win our off-season elections, I am sorry to say I am not in a position to answer that. I cannot as a politician in good faith discuss the strategy of how we are going to win elections in public. But we believe that we’re working very hard to ensure that the three off-season elections.
Meanwhile, there were reports of disappointments in some quarters, especially among top party chieftains who felt the lists of nominees they submitted were dropped. One of such recommended officers that were sacrificed from the list included former Cross River State Commissioner for Local Government, Dr. Stella Odey-Ekpo who is believed to an ally and anointed candidate of Edu; former Abia State House of Assembly Speaker Martins Azubuike and ex-Special Adviser on Water Resources to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Ismail .
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