* No plan to remove chairman at NEC meeting, says party scribe
By Chesa Chesa
Nasarawa State Governor, and chairman of North Central Governors Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Sule, has advised party members to stop distracting the national chairman, Umar Ganduje, and allow him focus on getting the party to win the forthcoming governorship elections in Edo, Ondo States, and others.
The Governor who spoke while on solidarity visit to Ganduje at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Friday, said not even the little challenges faced by the party in one of the North Central should be used to cause the party leadership under Gamduje to derail.
Sule said: “I am here also to pay my respect to a man that deserves respect – our national chairman, Dr. Ganduje. He deserves all the cooperation , especially at a time like this.
“In the next couple of weeks, we have an election in Edo. So the man does not need to be distracted in any other way, so that we can go and win our election in Edo and that is one of the reasons why I came to encourage him to be focused.
“I am the chairman of the North Central governors forum. And in the North Central, we have a state where there are issues and we had lengthy discussions also on that. We want him as well as the National Working Committee to intervene and make sure that we resolve those issues.
“North Central has five out of six APC governors. So for that reason, we need to strengthen our zone. We cannot afford any kind of disagreement in our zone.
“And I have no doubt that if there is any gentleman that can work to resolve that matter, it’s a man who has been in several positions. A deputy governor, a governor, a chairman, in fact so many other positions that he has been.
“So,!for that reason I came to pay my respect to the father of the party and the Working Committee and to our leader.”
Gamduje thanked Governor Sule for the visit and assured him of the readiness of the NWC to continue to give leadership to the party.
In his remarks, the APC National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, pointed out that the party’s forthcoming National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings scheduled for next month will be non-elective and should not raise cause for alarm, as rumors of change of party leadership were being bandied.
“People like to twist events. Immediately we put up notice when the President told us about his availability, we read in the papers that the meetings are about changing the leadership of our party.
“None of these meetings is being scheduled for regime change in the party. It is being held to give stewardship of what has been done by the leadership of Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje in terms of also presenting our audit report to show what we have been doing as well as the way forward”, Basiru said.
