APC LED-ADMINISTRATION HAS BOWS TO CALLS FOR RESTRUCTURING

The All Progressives Congress, APC, decided to address the issue of restructuring, a request from several important individuals and groups.

The question was tabled at a meeting of party leaders and governors held Thursday night at the Imo State Governor's Lodge in Asokoro, Abuja.

A private source of the meeting told Thisday on weekends that a technical committee would be inaugurated this week and would include party leaders, some of its governors and members of the National Assembly.

One of the governors said the committee should harmonize the party's position on restructuring.

The governor said after the work of the committee, the party would convene another meeting to chart the way forward.

His words: “Of course, we discussed the Anambra governorship election, especially the threat to the election by IPOB, and the leaders of the APC in the South-east who attended the meeting assured us that the boycott was not going to have any effect.”

The governor said the meeting also discussed the provisions relating to the party mini-convention.

He said leaders agreed to begin with the local government convention process in states where existing vacancies in party leaders needed to be filled.

The APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had after the meeting told newsmen: “We discussed issues affecting the nation and the impact of the current wave of agitations across the country.

“We decided to strengthen the party. We decided that the kind of verbiage and incendiary statements by different groups were not good for the health of the nation and we decided that it had to stop

“For that reason, we have taken certain measures, which I will not disclose here, to ensure that the basic and fundamental unity of this country is preserved while at the same time listening to whatever grievances anybody has to say.”