The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday October 6,2022 arrived in Abuja after a 12-day rest in London.
The APC Presidential candidate who left the country on Saturday, September 24, held several consultative meetings with various personalities, among whom were billionaire businessman Yemi Idowu, who is interested in investing in Nollywood and Toyin Subair, the owner of defunct Hi tv.
The former two-time Governor of Lagos state left the country after the secretary of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Hon. James Faleke, released a 422-member list of the council
The PCC list, however, received knocks from party stakeholders, including the National Working Committee (NWC) and governors who claimed they were not carried along.
This Day Reports that Following the complaints from the leadership of the party, governors, and stakeholders, the Director General of the PCC and governor of Plateau state, Hon Simon Lalong, in a statement suspended all the campaign activities indefinitely.
“However, due to the expansion of the list to accommodate more stakeholders and interests within the APC family, we have decided to adjust the time-table of these activities in order to ensure everyone is on board before activities officially commence. Consequently, the activities earlier announced for the 28th of September will no longer hold,” Lalong had said.
This did little or nothing to assuage the anger of the party stakeholders after a leaked letter purportedly written by the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu to Tinubu, where he demanded that the 422-member campaign list be withdrawn.
But less than 24 hours later, the party made a quick U-turn, when Adamu via a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Felix Morka, denied authoring the letter.
Interestingly, the meeting between the APC governors and the National leadership of the party led by Adamu last week failed to reach a compromise on the commencement date for the 2023 elections campaign.
Addressing newsmen after the closed-door meeting, Adamu assured that the party leadership has established machinery to resolve whatever issues they have.
It is expected that the full PCCl list, which is believed to have more than 2,000 members, would be released this week in order to get the campaign activities of the ruling party started and also get all stakeholders involved.
