APC: S/WEST ACN, TINUBU, GOVS MEET TODAY IN OSUN

Top
echelon of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the South-West geopolitical
zone of the country will today converged on Osogbo, the Osun state capital, to
discuss vital issues affecting the party in the region.

Nigerian Tribune authoritatively gathered
yesterday that the meeting which will be hosted by the state chapter of the
party will be attended by the five governors of the ACN controlled states of
Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Ekiti states among other chieftains of the party.

Nigerian Tribune learnt that two of the
major issues to deliberated on at the summit include the recent merger of the
progressive parties, which fused into a new political platform, All Progressives
Congress (APC) and the modalities to implement the new alliance in the
South-West.

The party in the South- West, would, at the
meeting, take a position on the interest of the ACN with regard to the sharing
of political offices in the newly formed APC.

Also expected at the meeting are the
National Chairman of the party, Chief Adebisi Akande; National Leader of the
party, Senator Bola Tinubu; former Governors of Ogun and Ekiti states, Chief
Olusegun Osoba and Chief Adeniyi Adebayo.

Confirming this, the ACN Director of
Publicity, Research and Strategy in Osun State, Mr Kunle Oyatomi  in
telephone interview said “the meeting would discuss the new merger, sustenance
of political control in the South-West and how the party can take over the
power at the federal level through electoral means in the next general
election.”

  “It is not an emergency meeting of
the ACN.

It is a zonal meeting and tomorrow would be
the turn of Osun State to host the meeting and issues that germane to the party
would be discussed by the participants and some of them are already arriving in
the state ahead of the meeting”, he stated.