Caretaker chairman of the extraordinary convention planning committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governor Mai Buni on Wednesday paid a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari in London, United Kingdom.
The duo is out of the country on medical trips.
The visit comes after Buhari called for order in the APC following a botched plan by some governors to remove Buni and replace him with Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello. The governors accused Buni of sabotaging the party’s plan to hold its national convention on March 26.
Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina in a statement on Wednesday quoted the president as directing Buni to take over the affairs of the CECPC.
Buhari, he stated, also wrote to Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State who is also the chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum.
In the letter, the president decried the multiplicity of cases within the APC which he said has the prospect of invalidating the activities and actions of the party by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He said the party could not change the leadership of the CECPC without infringing on the time limit set by INEC, and the current uncertainties and controversies “pose a real threat to the party.”
Minister of education Adamu Adamu posed for photos with Buni and the president.
