The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was absent at the party’s crucial caucus meeting held on Monday.
DAILY NIGERIAN gathered that Mr Tinubu, who heads the party’s reconciliation committee, is on collision course with the national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun.
But President Muhammadu Buhari, governors of the APC, leaders of the National Assembly, members of its Board of Trustee and National Working Committee, NWC, among others, had attended the meeting.
“It is going to be a routine NEC meeting which is a final leg of the meeting that was held last month,” Bolaji Abdullahi, the party’s national publicity secretary told journalists.
“If you recall after the NEC meeting last, month, I told you that two issues were outstanding and that members asked for more time to study those issues.
“These are the issues of constitutional amendment and the True Federalism committee report.
“These are the two key items on the agenda for tomorrow’s NEC meeting.”
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that the APC at its meeting of February 26 caucus meeting extended the tenure of the party’s NEC and other executive members across all levels by one year starting from June.
While Mr Odigie-Oyegun said the decision was in good faith, some party members, who were not comfortable with it, had taken the party to court over the issue.
The APC Forum of non-National Working Committee, NWC, had however, said that members who took the party to court out of grievance without exhausting its internal mechanism should be disciplined.
The forum while reaffirming the position of the party’s NEC to extend the tenure of all its executives, said such members should be disciplined by the party`s leadership in consonance with its constitution.
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