- Anyim is new Vice Chairman, Imo gov now Treasurer
Ahead of the next month’s National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party has reconstituted and changed the leadership of the Central Coordination Committee for the convention.
The party has also enlarged the membership base of the committee from the 73-member committee to a 90-member committee.
Former Katsina State Governor and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Bello Masari is appointed as chairman of the panel; former Senate President, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, is to serve as vice chairman I; and the Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) and the Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, will serve as vice chairman II, while Yobe State Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, will serve as secretary.
The Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, who was initially named as chairman, will now serve as the panel treasurer.
Announcing the changes, APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Basiru, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said, “In further consultation with the leadership and national stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Central Coordination Committee for the National Convention has been reconstituted as listed below.”
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The party attributed the changes in the committee’s leadership and its members, based on zoning exigencies, adding that sub-committees to the Central Coordination Committee will be constituted and announced in due course.
The reconstituted panel also has all the remaining 27 governors of the party as members of the committee.
Other members are former National Chairmen – Chief Bisi Akande, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje; Senate President Godswill Akpabio; House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas; Deputy Senate President, Barau Jibrin, and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives Benjamin Kalu.
Others include former Senate Presidents and Speakers of the House of Representatives, and serving and former principal officers of the two chambers of the National Assembly.
Ministers who will serve on the committee are Atiku Bagudu (Budget and Planning); General Christopher Musa (Defence); Mohammed Idris (Information and National Orientation); Senator Ibrahim Giadam (Police Affairs); and Minister of Interior, Hon. Bunmi Tunji Ojo.