The governor of Niger state, Sani Bello, has claimed he has been Acting Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caretaker Committee “for a while now”.
Bello stated this on Monday, while addressing reporters after presiding over a meeting of the APC’s National Caretaker committee at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
When the governor was asked if he has taken over APC’s leadership, he said: “Acting chairman, I have been acting for a while since the chairman travelled.”
When pushed further, the governor said: “No comment.”
There had been reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly approved the removal of the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), of the party.
Buni was said to have been replaced with his Niger State counterpart, Abubakar Sani Bello.
A faction of the APC governors was alleged to have complained bitterly to the president that Buni was not inclined to hold the convention as rescheduled, because there were no preparations on the ground to indicate so.
