President Muhammadu Buhari, has signed off the zoning arrangements for all elective positions of the All Progressive Congress (APC) ahead of the forthcoming National Convention of the party billed for March 26.
The president reportedly appended his signature after telling the governors and other stakeholders of the party of his preferred choice for the party’s National Chairman and Deputy Chairman (South).
The APC has slated 26 March for the convention where all the offices of the National Executive Committee of the party will be filled.
The 20 offices that make up the party’s National Working Committee would also be filled.
It is the positions of the NWC that aspirants are jostling for in view of the important role the committee plays in the party.
The three most important positions which the president has particularly signed off are the post of the National Chairman, for which he is said to have annointed former Nasarawa State governor and Senator, Mr Abdullahi Adamu.
The President equally decided that John Akpanudoedehe will be made substantive National Secretary.
The major positions would be by consensus, a strategy the president had also signed off to see that those he has anointed emerge.
The president had reportedly told the governors at a meeting boycotted by key governors before jetting out to UK that his preferred choice was Adamu and Mr Ken Nnamani, former senate president, for Deputy Chairman South, respectively.
The zoning formular which has not gone down well with many stakeholders, showed that the highest position allocated to a major zonal member of the APC, the South-West, is the post of the National Publicity Secretary.
Initial lobby was that former Minister of Aviation, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, would be endorsed and elected through a consensus to be the party’s National Publicity Secretary but that did not see the light of day following his multiple indictments by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and prosecution in court for graft and fraud, THE WHISTLER reported.
He is also a member of the publicity committee thus being ruled out of any elective position.
It was gathered that apart from the few positions which Buhari has signed off, other positions would be contested for by aspirants from the zones the positions have been zoned to.
Below is the zoning formal signed off by the president according to THE WHISTLER:
NORTH-CENTRAL
National Chairman
Deputy National Secretary
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Publicity Secretary
Deputy National Legal Adviser
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader
SOUTH-SOUTH
National Secretary
National Women Leader
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Welfare
Deputy National Treasurer
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader
SOUTH-WEST
National Publicity Secretary
National Treasurer
National Welfare Secretary
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Organising Secretary
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader
NORTH-EAST
National Organising Secretary
National Auditor
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Women Leader
Deputy National Financial Secretary
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader
NORTH-WEST
Deputy National Chairman (north)
National Legal Adviser
National Financial Secretary
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Youth Leader
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader
SOUTH-EAST
Deputy National Chairman (south)
National Youth Leader
National Vice-Chairman
Deputy National Auditor
Zonal Secretary
Zonal Youth Leader
Zonal Women Leader
Zonal Organising Secretary
Zonal Persons with Disability (PWD) leader