Their names were conspicuously missing from the reviewed PCC list released by the National Secretary of the APC, Iyiola Omisore, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
By Saidu Idris
365Daily – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has removed a former Governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, his Abia State counterpart and serving senator, Orji Uzor Kalu and others from its adjusted Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) list.
Their names were conspicuously missing from the reviewed PCC list released by the National Secretary of the APC, Iyiola Omisore, on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
The Minister of Interior, a former Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, was also dropped from the council, as well as Kassim Afegbua, a former commissioner for Information in Edo State.
This is sequel to opposition that greeted the first Tinubu-Shettima campaign council list released by the party in September by the PCC Secretary, James Faleke.
365Daily gathered that some Governors under the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) had threatened to sabotage the campaign over the old list which excluded their nominated persons.
The National Chairman of the Party, Abdullahi Adamu, also allegedly rejected the composition of the PCC as previously constituted.
The Chairman of the PGF, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State, and the Director General of the PCC, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, had reportedly worked on the list to factor in the interest of some senior members of the party.
The new list now includes all NWC members, all APC National Assembly members, all federal executive members, all former governors and deputy governors who are members of APC, all former APC NWC members and all APC National Executive Council members.
Others are all serving APC speakers, deputy speakers and principal officers of State Houses of Assembly, all APC former speakers of state assemblies, all APC state chairmen and all APC candidates of national and state assemblies.
Also, a former Deputy President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Issa Aremu, was added.
However, Sen. Orji has denied that he was removed from the list, saying he featured as a member of the PCC in three capacities.