A member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Board of Trustees (BoT), Chief Sam Nkire, has dismissed the notion that the party never had a board of trustees or that the board never met as false and without foundation.
In a statement in Abuja, Nkire said the APC’s BoT had its first meeting on Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at the New Rivers State Governor’s Lodge, Adokoro, Abuja, in which he was in attendance.
According to the APC chieftain, others who also attended the BoT meeting on that day included, but not limited to President Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Chief John Oyegun, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, Dr Chris Ngige, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Chief Tony Momoh and many others, including serving and former civilian and military governors.
Nkire said at the inception of the party, the BoT meetings were attended by only statutory members, which included former presidents and vice presidents, former national chairmen of political parties which had produced governors or members of the National Assembly, former governors, civilian or military, with the national chairman of the APC as its acting chairman.
According to the statement, the election of a substantive chairman of the board was delayed, pending the nomination of more members from the 36 states and Abuja, which came soon after the general election of 2015, won by President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.
The one-time national chairman of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) added that every organ of the party, including the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the National Caucus was in place and had, from time to time, held meetings, some of which he also attended.
The statement, however, noted that the party was in the process of renaming the BoT Elders Council and added that, “until that proposal gets the acclamation of the National Convention of the APC, the party’s board of trustees remains.”
APC has board of trustees –Nkire
