The controversy generated by the currency redesign policy of the Muhammadu Buhari administration further deepened, yesterday, as some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and National Working Committee, NWC, disowned today’s meeting.
The party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, had, last Friday, scheduled a meeting between state governors and NWC today.
The development, according to party sources, was informed by the worsening row between the governors and President Muhammadu Buhari over the currency policy.
The meeting slated for 2 pm is coming six days before the general elections.
“The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), His Excellency, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, invites state governors of the party to an emergency meeting to be held on Sunday, February 19, 2023, at 2 pm at the National Secretariat, Abuja,” party spokesman, Felix Morka, said in a notice on Friday night.
However, at least two members of the NWC, who pleaded anonymity, told Sunday Vanguard they were not aware of the proposed gathering.
“The said meeting was at the instance of Adamu and not the NWC.
“I am not aware of any meeting with our state governors on Sunday. I only got to know this after reading your story on your website. So, you were the one who even informed me,” one of the officials said.
The second person said the NWC never met and resolved that it should call for such a parley with governors.
“The said meeting is strange to some of us. I have not been invited and I am a member of the NWC. Yet, we saw reports quoting our spokesman as saying that NWC meets will meet with state governors. I am not aware of the meeting,” he added.
Asked if he had any insight into the agenda of the forum, he queried: “Is it not a meeting you have been invited to that you will know the agenda? How can I know the agenda of a meeting I haven’t been invited to?’’
“It does appear that the meeting is between the Chairman, Adamu, and the governors. He has a right to meet with them in his capacity as chairman but not on behalf of the NWC except where we so empower him to act,” he added