JUST-IN: APC Postpones NEC Meeting Over Tinubu’s ECOWAS Appointment

• Iyiola Omisore announced the shift on Sunday night 
• Adamu Abdullah has been criticized for not holding meetings 

The National Caucus and National Executive Committee NEC sessions that were originally scheduled for Monday and Tuesday this week have been postponed by the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in light of President Bola Tinubu’s appointment as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

The meetings will now take place on July 18 and 19, according to a statement issued by the party’s national secretary, Otunba Iyiola Omisore, on Sunday evening.

“Members of the National Caucus and National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are hereby informed that our meetings of 10th and 11th of July, 2023, have been postponed to the 18th and 19th of July, 2023, respectively.

“The postponement is necessitated by the regional and sub-regional schedules and engagements of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Inconveniences regretted”, said Omisore.

The Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led National Working Committee NWC of the party had recently come under intense criticisms over its failure to hold meetings of relevant party organs as stipulated by the the party’s constitution.