Governor Abubakar Sani Bello of Niger State has taken over the control of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the party’s new caretaker chairman.
This development followed the removal of Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, who has been in charge of the ruling party’s caretaker committee as its chairman in the past two years.
Bello, who arrived the party secretariat Monday morning, earlier presided over a meeting of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and State chairmen of the party.
As gathered, Buni said to be indisposed has since travelled out of the country for medical attention in Dubai.
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Recalled Buni took over the leadership of the party in June 2020 following the sack of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole- led National Working Committee (APC).
On his arrival at the party secretariat, Bello, as gathered convened the expanded meeting of the party to implement President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive on the removal of Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as the chairman of the ruling party’s caretaker committee.
But the secretary of the caretaker committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, had earlier described the news of Buni’s sack as fake news, in a statement entitled! “FAKE NEWS: No Leadership Change in APC CECPC.”
Akpanudoedehe, urged members of the party and the general public to disregard the report on Buni’s sack.
However, events have invalidated his statement, as Bello has already taken over the party structures at its headquarters office in Abuja, with heavy presence of security operatives at the premises of the National Secretariat of the APC, in Abuja.
