The national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was on Monday absent as President Muhammadu Buhari led other top government officials elected to a meeting of the party’s national caucus.
The meeting was held at the new Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Other top government officials who attended the meeting included Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and state governors.
The national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, led other national officers of the party to the meeting.
The caucus meeting was however held ahead of a meeting of the party’s National Executive Council holding on Tuesday.
The issue of the tenure elongation for members of the National Working Committee is believed to be an agenda before the party chiefs. The national caucus meeting was still ongoing as of the time of filing this report.
