Abdullahi Adamu, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), summoned governors elected on the party’s platform to an emergency meeting on Sunday on Friday.
WITHIN NIGERIA reports that Adamu called the meeting in the midst of an internal party crisis caused by the Central Bank of Nigeria’s implementation of a new cash policy (CBN).
The ruling party’s internal crisis erupted on Thursday when President Muhammadu Buhari declared in a nationwide broadcast that the old N200 naira notes remain the only legal tender, while the N500 and N1000 notes cease to be legal tender.
Some governors who were dissatisfied with the President’s statement urged their constituents to disregard Buhari’s directives.
Meanwhile, a top party official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Adamu would meet with the governors today to discuss the court cases over the naira redesign policy and plans for Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections.
According to the source, Adamu and some members of the party’s National Working Committee are enraged that the APC’s governors are opposing the new naira policy.
The source said;
Adamu is angry that those who are in court against the Federal Government’s policy are governors produced by the party. It is a thing that has hardly happened before in the history of democracy in the country.
Adamu is also worried that the governors are giving contrary directives to the residents of their states. You can imagine APC governors asking people of their states to continue spending money already outlawed by the President. That is a direct confrontation with the President and the political party he represents. There is no way the party will allow that to continue, especially as the elections are nearer.