By Omeiza Ajayi
As the world marks the 2021 International Women’s Day, the ruling All Progressives Congress APC said it has afforded women greater voice and participation in party management as well as governance of the country.
National Secretary, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe in a statement issued Monday in Abuja said the party is happy to celebrate “our teeming women membership and the entire women folk”.
According to him, the National Chairman of the APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Gov. Mai Mala Buni is unflinching in his determination to make the party, a more women-inclusive political organisation.
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When news filtered that the governor of Yobe State and chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, secretly got married to Gumsu Abacha, there were a lot of doubts.
The doubts came because Gov Buni carried on with his political obligations like nothing was happening. However, The Street Journal can authoritatively confirm that a wedding between the duo held at the tail end of February 2021.
This newspaper gathered that Buni secretly married Gumsu Abacha, who is the second daughter of Nigeria’s former Head of State, General Sani Abacha, to avoid interference from the media, a development which family sources say will lead to public scrutiny.
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• Disputes seeking another six-month extension
Gboyega Akinsanmi and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja
The decision of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to constitute an eight-man committee to review the party’s constitution has stoked a fresh crisis in the rank of its national leaders, THISDAY has learnt.
While a wing of its national leadership accused some governors elected on the platform of pushing the APC into constitutional crisis, others argued that the decision was a ploy by the caretaker committee to seek a fresh six-month extension.
Multiple sources expressed concerns over the eight-man constitution review committee yesterday, noting that the CECPC absolutely lacked power to review the constitution of the party,