Amid heavy security presence, the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress has inaugurated 34 state chairmen at the Party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday.
The state chairmen who emerged from the state congresses conducted last October were sworn in by Governor Mai Mala Buni, who was represented by the APC National Secretary, Dr John Akpanudoedehe.
The inauguration was held despite parallel congresses in some states such as Oyo, Kwara, Delta, Osun, Enugu, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Kano among others which were yet to amicably resolve their internal crises before Thursday.
However, Kano and Sokoto states were absent from the list.
The inaugurated state chairmen are Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu (Abia), Ibrahim Bilal (Adamawa), Augustine Ekanem (Akwa Ibom), Basil Ejike (Anambra), Babayo Misau (Bauchi), Dr. Dennis Otiotio (Bayelsa), Augustine Agada (Benue), Ali Dalori (Borno), and Alphonsus Eba (Cross River).
Others include Omeni Sabotie (Delta), Stanley Emegha (Ebonyi), Col David Imuse (retd.) (Edo), Omotosho Ayodele (Ekiti), Ogochukwu Agballah (Enugu), Nitte Amangal (Gombe), Dr Macdonald Ebere (Imo), Aminu Gumel (Jigawa), Air Cdre Emmanuel Jekada (retd.) (Kaduna), Muhammed Sani (Katsina), Abubakar Kana (Kebbi) and Abdullahi Bello (Kogi).
Sunday Fagbemi (Kwara), Cornelius Ojelabi (Lagos), John Mamman (Nasarawa), Haliru Jikantoro (Niger), Yemi Sanusi (Ogun), Ade Adetimehin (Ondo), Adegboyega Famodun (Osun), Isaac Omodewu (Oyo), Rufus Bature (Plateau), Emeka Bekee (Rivers). Ibrahim El-Sudi (Taraba), Muhammed Gadaka (Yobe), Tukur Danfulani (Zamfara) and Abdulmalik Usman (FCT), were also inaugurated.
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