Why Oyegun, Governors Disagreed Over APC Convention

More facts have emerged on why the National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie Oyegun rejected the resolution of governors and the National Working Committee, NWC, ‎to send a delegation to the Acting President YemiOsinbajo to present suggested convention dates for him to pick from.
Speaking recently in Abuja on the midterm scorecard of the APC-led administration, Chief Oyegun declared that the party’s midterm convention would have to wait until the president returns from his medical leave in London.
It was reliably gathered by the Fountain Newsbreaker that some governors are working subterraneously with certain power blocs to restructure the party toward 2019 Presidential election and to also favour their second term bid in offices.
Recall that Plateau State governor, Solomon Lalong, told newsmen after the meeting that “The issue of the National Convention was raised actually, as it was part of the decisions we took at the last meeting. Unfortunately like you realised, Mr. President is not here.But today, we all agreed that we have an acting President the same process should start again through the acting President.”
Lalong noted that though the President as leader of the party normally should attend but that in the present circumstances, the presence of the acting President will suffice.
Governors in attendance were Godwin Obaseki (Edo), Solomon Lalong (Plateau), Samuel Ortom (Benue), AbubakarBadaru (Jigawa) , Mohammed Abubakar (Bauchi). Others include: Sani Bello (Niger), Aminu Bello Masari (Katsina), Sen. AtikuBagudu and AbdulazizYari (Zamfara).
Others were Deputy governors of Kwara, Kogi, Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Nasarawa and Imo.“The convention is an important activity of the party that the president should not miss. We will hold on so that he can be part of the convention”, he stated.
However, the Party Chairman further downplayed the impact of the ill-health of Buhari on governance in the country and the party.
On Nigeria’s economy, Oyegun said government was working hard to end recession in order to reduce hardship the masses are facing, pointing outrenewed efforts to revamp the power sector.
On criticism by the People Democratic Party (PDP), he stated that while some problems that came in the way of rebuilding the economy were not foreseen, others could be traceable to the mismanagement of the past administration.