By Chuks Ehirim
For the second time within a week, the Secretary to the Government of Federation (SGF), Mr. Babachir David Lawal, visited the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in each case, he held a closed door meeting with the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. The meeting, a party source said, was a prelude to the “next week all important meetings of the party”.
Besides, there were strong speculations that the incumbent APC national chairman may be asked to step down during the meeting scheduled for next week.
It was, however, gathered that the frequent visit of the SGF was to provide a soft landing for Chief Oyegun. Babachir, who visited the APC national Secretariat on Friday and had meeting with some national officers, who were around, also was around last Tuesday, and held another closed door meeting with the national chairman and his deputy, South, Mr. Segun Oni. The meeting lasted for an hour.
Chief Oyegun had confirmed to newsmen when he resumed on Monday that “Yes, all the scheduled meetings of the party will run as planned, the caucus on the 21st, the BOT on the 22nd and NEC on the 24th. Everything will go as planned.”
The national chairman also spoke on the party’s plan to appoint a new spokesperson, saying arrangements had been concluded to hold the necessary congresses to nominate the spokesperson.
“I think that should be done very shortly. In fact the issue is getting somebody that can be as close as possible to the outstanding performance of the present Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed.
“I think that has been the issue. As a matter of fact if it means making adjustments somebody who is good is priority number one and you can make adjustments subsequently”, he said.