We Are Yet To Take Decision On Zoning – APC

We Are Yet To Take Decision On Zoning - APC
Cartaker Committee Chairman and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee has disclosed that it is yet to take a decision on Zoning ahead of the 2023 general elections,

The party said this while disowning the circulating zoning list of national officers and political positions for the 2023 election.

The purported list which was titled; ‘APC 2023 presidential ticket zoning and National Working Committee (NWC)’ was speculated to have zoned President (South), Vice President (North), Senate President (South), Deputy Senate President (North), House of Reps Speaker (North), House of Reps Deputy Speaker (South).
In zoning, the leadership of the party, APC National Working Committee, the speculated list had National Chairman (North), National Secretary (South), National Treasurer (South),  Financial Secretary (North), Legal Officer (North), Welfare Officer (South), Auditor (North),  National Youth Leader (South), National Woman Leader (South), Publicity Secretary (South) and Persons With Disability PWD Leader (South).
However, reacting to the speculated zoning list, the National Secretary Caretaker Committee, Sen John James Akpanudoedehe, said that there is no iota of truth in the list, insisting that there is nowhere it can be done in the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari still in faraway London on medical treatment.

‘People who are interested in running for one office or the other can speculate. As far as I am concerned, at the last Caretaker Committee meeting we had, we did not discuss that. That is not what we are concerned with now. What we are concerned with is data collection for the ongoing membership registration and validation exercise and how to collect data without making mistakes.

‘We are not going to be pressurized by sentiment and we do the wrong thing. Let me say that zoning is not for the Caretaker Committee alone. It has to do with the President, it has to do with other major stakeholders, it has to do with a lot of people.
‘I want to mute the speculation. The list is not from us (Caretaker Committee). The President is not in town. There is no way such a decision will be taken without consulting with the President, consult with the governors and other major stakeholders.
‘People should disregard the list. We are focused on delivering our mandate and we are to do it rightly,’ he insisted.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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