Former Governor of Kano State and a leader of the All Progressives Congress, Ibrahim Shekerau has said that the G5 governors should not be allowed to be leaders of the APC machineries in their respective states.
He made the call during an interview with Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Hanu da yawa in Kaduna.
Shekerau stated that there was no agreement reached between the APC and the governors which was meant to allow them emerge as the party leaders in their state.
He said, “I challenged our northern APC chairman Bello Masari to tell us the time, date and at what meeting it was agreed that the said state governors should be made chairmen of the party in their states. Is it at a meeting of 35 party members which was never held or was it at a meeting of party elders?
“Our National Chairman, Bisi Akande, only went with a few APC governors to meet with some PDP leaders and now they are talking of an agreement. Let him (Masari) provide the copy of the said agreement to newsmen to enable the public to know the content of the agreement and where it was agreed upon.”
Shekerau said none of the party leadership was able to produce such a document that granted the governors the authority.
However National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed confirmed that there was indeed an agreement between the APC and the governors.
He said, “We did agree with the new PDP governors that whatever rights our APC governors enjoy they would enjoy and prior to their coming, we agreed that governor in our states would drive the process and that the governors in the states would appoint interim chairmen.
“To that extent whatever our governors enjoy as soon as they became APC governors they will enjoy them and nobody can deny that.”
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