Alex Enumah in Abuja, Victor Ogunje in Ado Ekiti, Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia and Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto
Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, as well as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, have revalidated their membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking during the exercise, Fayemi disclosed that the party’s membership registration and revalidation exercise won’t end by getting the data base of the members alone, adding the party would work hard to register itself in the minds of Nigerians.
• Osoba calls for an emergency caucus meeting
• Fayemi, Oyegun, Adebayo defend the exercise
• Akande spoke our mind, says Lagos party chief, others disagree
• Kwara youths allege exclusion, manipulation of the process
• Rivers members divided along factional lines
When the pioneer national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, dismissed the party’s ongoing membership registration and revalidation exercise as an unnecessary waste of resources, many had thought he was just a lone voice in the wilderness, crying wolf. x
But more party stalwarts, yesterday, raised Akande’s solitary observation to an alarm status, warning that the party faces a blowout if issues concerning the exercise were not quickly addressed.
Fani-Kayode visits Jonathan after meeting Buni, Bello
Kayode Oyero
Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, on Tuesday evening, visited former President Goodluck Jonathan in his Abuja residence.
“My team and I had the honour and privilege of spending a wonderful evening with President Goodluck Jonathan in his Abuja home last night. None like him,” the minister tweeted on Wednesday without revealing details of the meeting.
Fani-Kayode’s visit to Jonathan followed his meeting with All Progressives Congress bigwigs including the party’s Caretaker Chairman, Mai Mala Buni; and Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, in Abuja.
After the meeting on Monday, photos of Fani-Kayode, a member of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, discussing with the APC bigwigs surfaced online.
Fani-Kayode leads talk with APC, four PDP govs plan defection
John Alechenu, Abuja
In what is being described as a major move ahead of the 2023 Presidential election, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress has begun talks with four Peoples Democratic Party governors with the aim of getting them to defect to the ruling party,
The PUNCH has learnt.
It was gathered in Abuja, on Monday, that a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, had met with the Caretaker Chairman of the APC, Mai Mala Buni; and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.
A high ranking member of the APC informed
Samuel Isa, the Organising Secretary of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Kwara, says the selection of the 5,000 registration officials for the membership registration exercise in the state is illegal