APC postpones State Congresses for governors to attend meeting

The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Sunday

postponed its state congresses, scheduled for

Wednesday, April 23, to allow its governors to attend

the rescheduled expanded National Security Council

meeting.

The congresses are now billed for April 26.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that

President Goodluck Jonathan had invited all

governors to an expanded security meeting for April

23 to address the security situation in the country.

A statement by the party’s Interim National Publicity

Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated that the

postponement was part

its stand to be part of efforts to end insurgency in

the country.

It said APC believed that security issues in the

country should not be politicised.

“Despite belonging to the opposition, our governors

are not any less of

stakeholders on the issue of our nation’s security.

”As a matter of fact, three of the states worst hit by

the ongoing  insurgency are being presided over by

APC governors, hence they are indispensable to any

effort aimed at ending the security  conundrum,” the

statement said.