APC postponed its national convention 14th of june

 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted its national convention to the 13th and 14th of June 2014.
The convention had earlier been slated for Saturday, May 24.

Interim national publicity secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in a communiqué after the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party in Abuja yesterday, gave no reason for the shift but said the party’s leaders have agreed to shift the convention.
There have been speculation that the convention would be postponed as the party leaders were yet to decide on where to zone key positions in the party while no aspirant as at yesterday has obtained nomination forms to contest any position at the convention.

Inside sources say the postponement was deemed necessary to give the party leaders more time to thrash out the issues concerning the convention and to ensure an acceptable sharing of the party offices according to the geo-political zones in the country.
Mohammed said the party expressed its views and concerns about the Federal Government’s efforts in the fight against Boko Haram and search for the abducted school girls.
The APC bemoaned a situation where the federal government is yet to reach out to it as the main opposition party on how to forge a common front against Boko Haram.
“Nigerians will recall our various interventions in which we stated clearly that only a non-partisan approach could help extricate Nigeria from the death grip of Boko Haram; how we have consistently called on the government to organize a national stakeholders’ summit to put all hands on deck and how we have made a number of recommendations which we feel can help pep up the fight against the terror group.
“The only response we have received so far is that in which the government said it had implemented or it is implementing those recommendations anyway, in what clearly amounts to an unnecessary hubris and a cold shoulder.”
APC said for a party that controls 16 out of 36 states and has over 40 Senators and over 150 members in the House of Representatives is too big to be ignored at a critical time like this in the life of our nation.