By Omeiza Ajayi
The ruling All Progressives Congress APC has formally set its sights on the 2026 Nationwide Conference with the revealing of a 73-member Central Coordination Committee, which options the controversial return of its former Nationwide Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu.
The inclusion of Adamu is especially putting given his 2023 announcement that he was quitting partisan politics because of a self-described “allergy” to political actions, adopted by latest viral stories suggesting he had dumped the ruling occasion for the African Democratic Congress ADC.
APC management seems to have made a strategic transfer to suppress rumours of inner fracture by inserting the previous chairman at quantity 32 on the committee listing.
The Nasarawa State chapter of the APC had final month issued a proper rebuttal in opposition to claims of Adamu’s defection, insisting {that a} extensively circulated photograph of him was not an ADC reception however relatively his participation within the APC’s nationwide e-membership registration train.
The conference committee is chaired by the Governor of Imo State and Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Discussion board, Hope Uzodimma, who can be supported by Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq as Vice Chairman and Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni as Secretary.
The listing reinforces the affect of state governors over the occasion’s transitional equipment as they put together for the nationwide gathering scheduled for March 2026.
Past the Adamu saga, the committee displays a “huge tent” technique by the Nationwide Working Committee NWC, incorporating a mixture of conventional heavyweights and notable new entrants.
The listing consists of Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Tajudeen Abbas, alongside latest high-profile defectors comparable to Rivers State governor, Siminalayi Fubara; Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and Plateau State Governor Caleb Mutfwang, all of whom formally joined the APC just lately.
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