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All Progressives Congress
(APC) governors are currently in Birkin Kebbi, the capital city of Kebbi State
to discuss the issue of restructuring.
Sources who have the
knowledge of meeting said the meeting which will kick off on Tuesday would be
declared open by the acting president,
Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
It was conformed that the
meeting to be held under the aegis of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF)
would receive a position paper on restructuring.
The party recently set up
a committee headed by the Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, to
deliberate on the knotty issue of restructuring.
The restructuring agenda
had, in recent times, split the country along the North-South divides.
Voting on key elements of
restructuring also got defeated in the National Assembly last week, when the
lawmakers shut down the amendment to Land Use Act and devolution of power.
The Senate and the House
of Representatives shut down the two bills among others during the clause by
clause voting last Wednesday and Thursday.
Sources close to the PGF,
however, said that the governors were set to receive the position paper on the
key issue.
“The PGF is converging on
Kebbi from Monday for a meeting which will be declared open by Acting President
Osinbajo Tuesday morning.
“The governors are set to
deliberate on key issues affecting the polity.They will also receive a position
paper on the issue of restructuring and release a communique at the close of
the meeting,” a source close to the meeting said.
It was also gathered that
the meeting would also deliberate on the planned national convention of the
party which had been kept in abeyance following the prolonged absence of
President Muhammadu Buhari.
Another issue slated for
debate, according to sources, was the growing discontent within the party with
many of the state chapters of the party already soaked in crisis.
On Sunday, hoodlums
attacked two senators of Kaduna state who addressed a press conference to call
attention to what they termed impunity in the running of the affairs of the
state.
Crisis has also erupted in
the Rivers State chapter of the party, while Lagos, Kano and many other
chapters of the party are also reeling in one form of crisis or the other.
There has been confusion
as to whether the party was willing to hold its national convention in the
absence of the president,just as the composition of the party’s Board of
Trustees (BoT) had also been kept in abeyance as a result of scheming and internal wrangling among stakeholders.
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