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BREAKING: National convention: APC bars Amaechi, Malami, Fashola, others from voting

The All Progressives Congress has barred political appointees from voting at its national convention holding on Saturday.

The party made this known in a press statement on Thursday.

The statement was titled, ‘Attention to political office holders who were elected as delegates’.

It read, “The National Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of APC has declared that all political appointees who were elected as delegates to the National Convention slated for 26/3/2022 SHALL NOT VOTE in view of the controversy surrounding Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act,2022.

“However, political appointees can still attend as observers.”

With this, some of the President’s ministers such as, Abubakar Malami, Hadi Sirika, Rotimi Amaechi, Senator Chris Ngige; the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba; and a few others will not vote.

 

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