A meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari, governors on the platform of the APC, state chairmen, former governors and many other bigwigs of the party are at the meeting.
National chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is presiding over the meeting.
Our correspondent reports that the meeting would ratify a date for the party’s presidential primaries and the mode of nomination of its presidential candidate among others.
At the meeting, NEC transferred its powers to Adamu-led NWC for 90 days.
National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, told NEC members at their ongoing meeting in Abuja, that the Senate President Ahmed Lawan moved the motion and was seconded by Governor Nasir El-rufai of Kaduna State.
Daily Trust reports that with the development, the NWC has the powers to take valid decisions without the approval of NEC for the next 90 days.
