The national caretaker committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, 3 February, inaugurated party chairpersons for 34 states and the federal capital territory (FCT).
The party members had converged on the headquarters of the APC in Abuja for the inauguration amid heavy security.
Mai Mala Buni, chairman of the caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee (CECPC), represented by John Akpanudoedehe, secretary of the committee, inaugurated the state chairpersons, excluding those of Kano and Sokoto, according to The Cable.
The development comes weeks before the party’s national convention scheduled for February 26.
The party didn’t state exact reasons for excluding Sokoto and Kano.
However, there is an ongoing court case involving the APC in Kano, and the party crisis in Sokoto had resulted in parallel congresses.
The inaugurated state chairmen are Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu (Abia), Ibrahim Bilal (Adamawa), Augustine Ekanem (Akwa Ibom), Basil Ejike (Anambra), Babayo Misau (Bauchi), Dr. Dennis Otiotio (Bayelsa), Augustine Agada (Benue), Ali Dalori (Borno), and Alphonsus Eba (Cross River).
Others include Omeni Sabotie (Delta), Stanley Emegha (Ebonyi), Col David Imuse (retd.) (Edo), Omotosho Ayodele (Ekiti), Ogochukwu Agballah (Enugu), Nitte Amangal (Gombe), Dr Macdonald Ebere (Imo), Aminu Gumel (Jigawa), Air Cdre Emmanuel Jekada (retd.) (Kaduna), Muhammed Sani (Katsina), Abubakar Kana (Kebbi) and Abdullahi Bello (Kogi).
Sunday Fagbemi (Kwara), Cornelius Ojelabi (Lagos), John Mamman (Nasarawa), Haliru Jikantoro (Niger), Yemi Sanusi (Ogun), Ade Adetimehin (Ondo), Adegboyega Famodun (Osun), Isaac Omodewu (Oyo), Rufus Bature (Plateau), Emeka Bekee (Rivers). Ibrahim El-Sudi (Taraba), Muhammed Gadaka (Yobe), Tukur Danfulani (Zamfara) and Abdulmalik Usman (FCT), were also inaugurated.
