A planning committee of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council met behind closed doors in Abuja on Tuesday to review its growing membership list.
The meeting was chaired by the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong.
A source told our correspondent that the agenda of the meeting was hinged on the need to properly vet the nominees’ list to avoid another backlash as witnessed in the outrage of aggrieved All Progressives Congress governors and members of the National Working Committee after the list was unveiled.
This was also confirmed by PCC Director of Media and Communications, Bayo Onanuga, who told The PUNCH that the meeting was called by Lalong to “take another look at the list.”
He said, “It was an internal meeting. It was just to take another look at the campaign list so people don’t complain again. That’s the agenda of the meeting.”
However, no member of the NWC, including the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was present at Tuesday’s meeting.
When asked if any NWC ought to be at the meeting, the source stated that unless an arrangement was agreed upon, they also hold sensitive positions in the newly constituted campaign council.
He said, “Are they not members of the PCC? Remember that Adamu is a deputy chairman of the council, while national vice chairmen of the APC are equally deputy coordinators and zonal vice chairmen.
“Many of them were absent at the meeting but I understand there will be a crucial meeting of the NWC tomorrow (Wednesday) to also deliberate on the list.
The inaugural meeting of the PCC committee came six days after the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, failed to kick off its nationwide campaign in line with the directive of the Independent National Electoral Commission.
