President Muhammadu Buhari may have pitched his tent with the factional national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Victor Giadom on Tuesday evening as the party has summoned a virtual meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC).
Giadom, in a statement issued on Tuesday, June 23 said he was convening the meeting with the consent of President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said that the NEC meeting of the party scheduled for Thursday, June 25, would take place at the State House, Abuja.
Part of the statement read: “I, Chief Victor Giadom, having been duly authorized by Court Order to Act as National Chairman of our great party and to preside over all meetings of the NWC and NEC hereby and with the consent of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR (who is the leader of our party) reconvene the NEC meeting that was earlier billed to hold on the 17th of March, 2020, but was postponed.”
Giadom, from Rivers State, is the APC deputy national secretary but declared himself as the acting national chairman of the party after Comrade Adams Oshiomhole’s suspension was upheld by the appeal court.
Giadom’s claim that he has President Buhari’s consent to summon the NEC meeting might be as a result of the meeting between the president and three APC governors on Monday, June 22.
Governors Atiku Bagudu, Simon Lalong and Badaru Abubakar were at the presidential villa to confer with the president on the APC crisis.
