The Director General of the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, is currently meeting with the Governors of the All Progressive Congress.
The closed-door meeting, which also has directors of the campaign council in attendance, is taking place at the PCC Headquarters in Abuja.
Although the agenda for the meeting was not disclosed, the development is coming hours after a strategic planning committee of the same council met earlier this evening in Abuja to review its growing membership list.
The meeting, chaired by the Plateau State governor, Simon Lalong, did not commence on time as earlier scheduled because some members came late.
A source told our correspondent that the reason for the political roundtable 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 the 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.”
“But it is an internal meeting. It is just to take another look at the campaign list so people don’t complain again. That’s the agenda of the meeting,” he said.
However, no member of the NWC, including the National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was present at Tuesday’s meeting of the strategic planning committee.
When asked if any NWC member ought to be at the meeting, the source stated that unless an arrangement was agreed on, they also held sensitive positions in the newly constituted campaign council.
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