The ruling All Progressives Congress may have shelved its zonal congress, which was scheduled for Saturday.
The development came late Tuesday, as the party said it would soon release its zoning formula.
Sources said the decision on the zonal congress was part of new moves to reverse some of the decisions made by the embattled Chairman of the Caretaker Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni.
Buni has been replaced by Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State.
Although the APC has continued to evade questions on the zonal congress, the Chairman of Kwara state branch of the of the party, Prince Sunday Fagbemi, earlier gave the hint that the zonal congress of the party would no longer hold.
He said, “I don’t think that the zonal congress will hold any longer as they said that it is not in the constitution of the party. So, probably, the party will make other arrangements. I’m not saying that the party will not have zonal officers.”
But the acting Chairman of the APC Caretaker Committee, Governor Bello, says the party’s leadership on Tuesday adopted the zoning report it received from the Zoning Committee led by the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazak.
He further revealed that the National Executive Council meeting which includes the governors, the state chairmen and other organs of the party, will meet next week to put in place modalities ahead of the March 26 national convention.
Bello further revealed that he would continue to hold meetings at the party’s national headquarters every day until the convention.
Speaking to journalists, he said, “The report of the zoning formula has been submitted and adopted and it will be released any moment from now. I mean the zoning formula.
“Hopefully, by next week, the NEC meeting will hold. It is a continuation of Monday’s meeting. And just so you know, so you won’t be asking me the same thing tomorrow, we are going to be meeting every day until the convention so that we can put things together.
“Basically, today we looked at the convention sub-committee and we collected some of the reports from the committee hoping that tomorrow we will decide on the next step to take.”
On whether the CECPC National Secretary, John Akpanudoedehe, is part of the new leadership of the APC, Bello replied, “ask him”.
However, the national secretariat was thrown into disarray over purported resignation of Akpanudoedehe.