APC Convention: South-West Govs meet today in Lagos over party offices

The five All Progressives Congress Governors in the South-West will meet today in Lagos over the sharing of the party positions allocated to the geopolitical zone.

The meeting is to prepare the grounds for the party’s national convention now slated for March 26 and ensure the South-West is on the same page over the positions zoned to it.

Top among the positions allocated to the zone are those of National Secretary, National Vice-Chairman, South-West and Youth Leader.

At their meeting, the governors will micro-zone the positions among the six states in the area. Western Post learnt there is a plan to micro-zone the position of National Secretary to Oyo State which has no APC governor in a bid to use the position to power the state back to the APC fold.

Some names are already been touted for the three positions.

Among them are a former deputy governor in one of the states, a former secretary to the state governor, a former speaker, a former member of the House of Representatives and some former commissioners (names withheld).

The zoning arrangements proposed by the APC at their meeting last week were said to have been endorsed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Under the zoning formula, the chairmanship was zoned to the North-Central geopolitical zone and secretaryship to the South-West while Deputy National Chairman, South was ceded to the South-East and Deputy National Chairman, North to the North-East.

With the zoning of the position of National Secretary to the South-West, the ambition of the present Secretary of the party’s National Caretaker Committee of the party, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, to transform into a substantive National Secretary may have been dashed.