Sixty-five days after moving out of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, former President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to join President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the rescheduled National Caucus meeting of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) tonight at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Also expected at the meeting are Vice President Kashim Shettima and his predecessor, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, who also left the Villa on May 29.
The meeting, which had been postponed twice, was initially fixed for July 10 but shifted to July 18 due to external engagements of President Tinubu.
The last postponement was 24 hours before the meeting, following the voluntary resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and th3e erstwhile Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
A statement last weekend in Abuja by Acting Secretary Festus said the meeting will hold at 6 p.m.
The APC National Caucus meeting precedes the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting slated for tomorrow at the Congress Hall of Transcrop Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
Also, a crucial meeting of the National Working Committee (NWC) was held at the party’s national secretariat yesterday to fine-tune the agenda for the caucus and NEC meetings.
A source within the NWC told our correspondent that the caucus meeting is expected among other party issues to deliberate on the agenda for the NEC meeting fixed for tomorrow.
It will also consider and approve the nomination of former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and Senator Ajibola Basiru as the next National Chairman and National Secretary of the party.
Also expected at the caucus meeting are all NWC members (except the five national deputies) along with past and present Presidents and Deputy President of the Senate, present and past Speakers of the House of Representatives and Deputy Speakers as well as serving Majority and Minority Leaders, Whips and their Deputies in the Senate and House of Representatives.
Also expected at the crucial meeting are past and present governors, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chairman, Deputy Chairman and Secretary of the National Advisory Council of the party, former National Chairmen and National Secretaries of the party, Zonal Chairmen with two members of each zone, one of whom shall be the Zonal Vice Chairman and the other a woman as well as other members as may be co-opted or appointed by the National Executive Committee.
