Ajimobi Will Resume His Position As Party Chairman Once He Recuperates – APC

APC has come out to say that ex-governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi will soon resume duty as acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Abdulazeez Olatunde, the Publicity Secretary of the ruling party in Oyo State, revealed this recently.

According to him, even if Ajimobi might he unavailable right now because of illness, he expects him to resume once he regains his health.

He added that there is is no crisis in APC and the party is only waiting for the ex-governor to recuperate.

His words, “Ajimobi is the Acting Chairman. For one reason or the other, he is not available now. He is going to be available very soon; it could be next week, upper week, or anytime. When he is okay, he is going to resume.

“There is no crisis in our party. Etta is the one acting on behalf of our leader, Abiola Ajimobi.

“By the grace of God, you know the ultimate power belongs to God, but I can assure you that our leader, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, will resume office as the acting National Chairman very soon. He is recuperating.”

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections. APC candidate Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential election by almost 2.6 million votes. Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat on 31 March. This was the first time in Nigeria’s political history that an opposition political party unseated a governing party in a general election and one in which power transferred peacefully from one political party to another. In addition, the APC won the majority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 2015 elections, though it fell shy of winning a super-majority to override the ability of the opposition People’s Democratic Party to block legislation.

Formed in February 2013, the party is the result of a merger of Nigeria’s three biggest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP – a faction of then ruling People’s Democratic Party. The resolution was signed by Tom Ikimi, who represented the ACN; Senator Annie Okonkwo on behalf of the APGA; Ibrahim Shekarau, the Chairman of ANPP’s Merger Committee; and Garba Shehu, the Chairman of CPC’s Merger Committee. Ironically, less than 2 years before the party’s historic victory in the 2015 elections, Messrs. Annie Okonkwo, Tom Ikimi and Ibrahim Shekarau resigned from the party and joined the PDP.

Prior to the formation of the APC and its victory in the 2015 elections, Muhammadu Buhari had previously contested (and subsequently lost) the Nigerian presidential elections of 2003 and 2007 as the presidential nominee of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the 2011 Nigerian presidential election as the presidential nominee of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).