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Buhari, APC leaders hold caucus meeting, set for NEC today

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President Muhammadu Buhari and other party leaders held a caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress on Thursday night Abuja.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo also attended the meeting, which also had National Working Committee members and state governors participating.

It was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The meeting was held preparatory to Friday’s (today) National Executive Council meeting of the APC.

The meeting was in progress as of 8.20pm last night.

Speaking after the meeting ended, Oshiomhole said the caucus meeting was like a “elders’ council”, where issues affecting the party in recent times were reviewed.

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He said one of the issues was the performance of the part at this year’s general elections.

Oshiomhole also said next year’s budget and some disciplinary issues in the party were discussed.

“You know it’s a meeting of national caucus. Basically, it is just to review the performance in the last elections, current issues, next year’s budget, and disciplinary issues.

“You know caucus is like an elders’ council to speak on a lot of things that we will discuss at NEC tomorrow (friday).

He dismissed reports of being under pressure to convene the NEC meeting, saying that the date was fixed two months ago.

“There is no pressure. NEC meeting was scheduled like two months ago. We are just waiting for the day to come. It was fixed two months ago. And it is taking place tomorrow (today). Are you not aware of that?

“You are talking of what Mr Salihu Lukman (Director-General of Progressives Governors’ Forum) said. That is his opinion. Even before he said that, this meeting has been fixed. It is normal to hold a meeting. We have a NEC meeting to look at our financial statements for previous year, budget for next year, issues that arose during and after the elections, and current outcomes of various cases that went to court; the one we won and the one we lost; going forward; issues in some states where we have disagreements and how to resolve the disagreements.

“I think that is it. And it went very well. And you can see the president sat all through the meeting.”

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