2019 Election: APC National Caucus To Hold Emergency Meeting On Monday

2019 Election: APC National Caucus To Hold Emergency Meeting On Monday

On Monday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Caucus
will hold an emergency meeting in Abuja to discuss prevailing national
issues.

The meeting is coming after the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) postponed the earlier scheduled Feb. 16 Presidential
and National Assembly elections. The APC caucus which is a statutory
organ of the party, is chaired by President Buhari and has the Vice
President and all the party’s former governors as members. Its
membership also includes the party’s serving governors, and members of
its National Working Committee (NWC), among others.  

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu,had a few hours to commencement
of the presidential and National Assembly elections announced the
rescheduling of the exercises by one week. By the postponement, the
Presidential and National Assembly elections now comes up on Feb. 23,
while the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections comes up on
March 9.  

Yakubu had said the decision to postpone the elections was taken
after a meeting with INEC Commissioners, citing “logistics’’ problems as
issues that prompted the postponement.  He said the decision was
further necessitated after reviewing the level of the commission’s
preparedness for the exercise.