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Buhari Did Not Involve Us In Board Appointments \u2013 Oyegun<\/p>\nBuhari Did Not Involve Us In Board Appointments \u2013 Oyegun<\/p>\n
National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun<\/p>\n
Jan 6, 2018: Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), has exonerated the party from the list of dead persons included as chairmen and members of boards of government parastatals and agencies.<\/p>\n
Odigie-Oyegun told newsmen on Saturday in Abuja that the party\u2019s leadership was not involved in the final compilation of the list.<\/p>\n
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, had in defence of the error, explained that President Muhammadu Buhari had requested for the submission of 50 names each by the state chapters of the APC in 2015.<\/p>\n
Some of the dead persons whose names appeared on the list recently released by the presidency included Sen. Francis Okpozo, who passed on at 81 in 2016; Donald Ugbaja, and Rev. Fr. Christopher Utov, among others.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development, Odigie-Oyegun said that the embarrassment would have been avoided if the party was involved in the final compilation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is pretty obvious that the party was not involved in the final stages of the compilation of that list.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, we sent names at the initial stage and I am talking of a period of two years ago, we demanded for every state to make 50 nominations which were sent to the committee in charge of the list for the purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey completed the initial exercise but since then, a lot has happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have changed parties, people had died, we have three new governors that were not there when the list was compiled,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
This, the chairman said, was enough reason for the party\u2019s leadership to look at the final outcome of the exercise.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we are not fortunate to participate on that final stage otherwise such would not have occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is my sincere hope that we will be fully involved in the review that has to now take place and any other exercise, moving forward from this date,\u2019\u2019 Odigie-Oyegun said.<\/p>\n
He added that considering the fact that this year would be build-up to the 2019 general election, the party would hit ground running.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will resume on Monday and we are going to hit ground running, we all know that this year is obviously going to be an active year for elections,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
He assured Nigerians that the President Buhari-led APC Federal Government was making concrete efforts to make the country self-sufficient in all areas.<\/p>\n
The chairman maintained that the government was aware of the challenges Nigerians were going through, assuring that there is light at the end of the tunnel. – PM News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Buhari Did Not Involve Us In Board Appointments \u2013 Oyegun National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Oyegun Jan 6, 2018: Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the National Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), has exonerated the party from the list of dead persons included as chairmen and members of boards of government parastatals and agencies. Odigie-Oyegun told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[213,265,52,266],"yoast_head":"\n