Breaking: APC suspends national convention for zonal congresses

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has suspended its planned national convention earlier slated for February 26 till further notice.

In a letter dated Monday, February 21, 2022, jointly signed by the chairman of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor Mai Mala Buni and secretary of the committee, Senator John Akpanudoedehe, and addressed to the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, titled, ‘Notice For The Conduct Of Zonal Congresses’, the party said the latest notice supersedes its earlier notice of a national convention sent to INEC.

It added that the zonal congresses will hold on March 26, 2022 while INEC is expected to mobilise its officials to monitor the exercise.