Substantive APC leaders to emerge at convention May 24 Substantive national leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are to emerge at the National Convention of the party slated for May 24. The convention will be preceded by ward congress on April 5, local government Congress on April 12 and state congress on April 23. The party will also not adopt zoning formula in deciding the occupiers of the offices, preferring however, to leave it open and allow people who are interested in any particular position to vie for it. This was part of the major decisions taken at the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party held at its national secretariat on Tuesday. The party, in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting, also took time to lampoon the government of President Goodluck Jonathan over the death of applicants at the aptitude test conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the weekend. Sources present at the meeting told Daily Independent that the decision also reached at the meeting was that all members of the present interim Executive Committee who intend to contest the elections at the National Convention are to resign before the end of the month, but the decision was not included in the communiqué. The source, who spoke on anonymity, said the matter generated heated debate as the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, openly expressed reservations over a suggestion allegedly made by Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the National Chairman and the Publicity Secretary should be left to stay in office even when the convention planning committee is put together, for certain reasons. Meanwhile, Few days after the disaster, which plagued the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)’s recruitment exercise across the country, commissioners in charge of Budget and Planning in 16 states being governed by Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) (APC governors), have moved towards formulating policies that would tackle unemployment in their states. The commissioners, who converged on Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for ‘PGF Policy Design Session on Unemployment’, identified lack of accurate data and viable plans among others as causes of rising rate of unemployment in Nigeria and agreed on the urgent need to deal with the scourge. Via: DailyIndepent
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:29:13 +0000
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