2023: APC Holds NEC Wednesday, Primaries Top Agenda

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO – The All Progressives Congress (APC) will on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, hold its maiden National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting following the March 26 inauguration of the Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee (NWC)

National Publicity Secretary of the ruling Party, Felix Morka, said the meeting, convened by virtue of section 25.2.ii of the party’s constitution, will consider the party’s timetable/schedule of activities for primaries to nominate candidates for the 2023 General Elections and other relevant business of the party.

A statement in Abuja on Friday by Morka said; “Pursuant to Article 25.2.ii of the Constitution of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the National Working Committee (NWC) hereby invites members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of our great Party to a meeting to consider the Party’s Timetable/Schedule of Activities for Primaries for the nomination of candidates for the 2023 General Elections and other relevant business of the Party.

“All members of the NEC are by this invitation to take notice of the meeting in accordance with Article 12.3 of the APC Constitution, please,” the official notice/invitation for the NEC meeting said

The APC Spokesperson further said in the statement that the meeting will take place at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)

Going by the schedule of activities released Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), political parties are expected to hold their primaries and produce their candidates before June 3, 2023

According to Article 12.3 of the APC Constitution, apart from all the members of the NWC, those expected at the NEC meeting are President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the 22 governors of the party.

Also covered by the Party’s constitution to attend the meeting are the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila of the House of Representatives, their deputies, and principal officers of APC from both chambers of the National Assembly (NASS).

The ruling party last held its NEC meeting in December 2020 when it extended the tenure of the defunct interim leadership while granting waivers to persons who recently joined the party. Among other resolutions, that meeting also approved the immediate dissolution of party organs at polling units, wards, local government, state, and zonal levels.