NEC Meeting: APC NWC meet with State Chairmen

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday met with State Chairmen of the party in preparation for the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for July 19, 2023.

Addressing the State Chairmen at the National Secretariat in Abuja, the National Chairman of the Party, Abdullahi Adamu noted that the President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be attending the meeting alongside his Vice, Senator Kashim Shettima.

He however called for massive support from the state leaders in ensuring that the NEC meeting which is the first since the conclusion of 2023 general election is a success.

“The fact is that we are going to have our first National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting since the election of 2023. Our president, and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be attending with his Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima.

“We thought it necessary to sit with Chief Executives of States and the leadership of our States for our party in various States”, he added.

Speaking on the much anticipated ministerial appointments of President Tinubu, the National Chairman said he hope that the leadership of the party will be carried along in the forming of his Cabinet.

He said “Every APC member has an inherent right to hope to get some patronage and we can all get one here. We cannot all be Ministers of the government. We cannot all end up as Board Members, Directors of Parastatals and MDAs across the country. What we do expect is some patronage from the government that we are forming.

“The President has just started and he is doing his extensive consultation before coming up with his nominees for Ministers. The nomination of the Ministers will come first. They will go through their screening until they are pronounced after they have been submitted before Mr. President and Mr President will formally appoint his Ministers and swear them in, only after doing that will he disclose each of them to the country to know which Minister is going to which ministry and how many ministry we are going to have. After that is done, the Ministers assume office and make a comprehensive report starting from all the ministry and MDAs under them before we are going to know what vacancies exist for Chief Executives, Directors and part time Directors.

“These are some of the exercise that will take place within the next two months. It cannot happen by next week but certainly that is what we should be expecting.

“It is our hope and prayers that Mr. President will come along with us in that regard and strengthen the relationship of the party in the states and at the National level will enjoy some level of patronage in the new government. Those are the key issues that we do hope to share with you in the course of this meeting,” he said.