APC governors insists the party’s national convention will not hold until President Buhari returns

Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday, said the party’s national convention must wait until the return of President Muhammadu Buhari.

At the end of a closed-door meeting with the National Working Committee (NWC), led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, it was resolved that President Buhari, currently attending to his health in the United Kingdom (UK), must be around before the party could discuss modalities for its convention.

Speaking with newsmen at the end of the meeting, Zamfara State governor, Abdul-Aziz Yari, disclosed that the party would, however, proceed with processes for its non-elective convention to fill existing vacancies in the party executive.

He further disclosed that the process would commence on July 29, with the conduct of state congresses.

“We have been on this issue of mid-term convention for sometime. But you know that the president is the leader of this party and before getting to the convention, there is a process.

“The NWC must agree on the time and we have to adopt the report of the National Working Committee to the National Executive Committee and the president must be in attendance as the leader.

“You know the situation of our president today. We have been fixing time, but because of his illness, we have not been able to hold the meeting,” he said.