National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday met behind closed-doors with the chairmen of the 36 state chapters of the party for over four hours.
The meeting is the first of its kind since the party won the general elections on March 28 and April 11, 2015.
Although details of the meeting were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, chairmen of two state chapters who spoke on condition of anonymity said state chairmen convened the meeting to review the last elections.
One of the chairmen from a state in the North-West explained that he and his colleagues considered it necessary to meet with the chairman to, among other things, express their displeasure over the way they were being left out of the scheme of things.
He said, “As chairmen of the party at the level of states, we worked for the party and we deserve to be carried along now that the victory has been won.
“We are, however, not happy that we are being kept in the dark about happenings within the party and we told him so.
“We raised this issue because the states are being neglected and since we do not support disunity within our party, we decided to meet with the chairman to work out ways of improving the situation in the interest of the party.
“On his part, the national chairman told us he has been looking for an opportunity to meet with us to share ideas but that the electioneering campaigns and the limited time the party had to organise itself before the election made it difficult.”
The party leader, however, said the crisis which erupted after the leadership elections in the National Assembly were not discussed.
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