Following the conference of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), the umbrella body of guvs chosen on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee(CECPC) will satisfy on Tuesday to announce the date and location for the nationwide convention.

The APC guvs were secured a meeting at Kebbi Governors Lodge on Sunday in Asokoro, Abuja, and it ended in the early hours of Monday.

The guvs of the ruling celebration fulfilled following tremendous pressure mounted on the caretaker committee to fix a particular date for the celebration’s nationwide convention.

Stakeholders of the celebration have been up in arms with the caretaker committee chaired by the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, over its refusal to reveal the venue and date for the convention.

The Chairman of the Forum and the Governor of Kebbi State, Atiku Bagudu, while attending to journalists after a closed-door meeting that lasted for more than two hours, said the caretaker committee would reveal the date of the convention.

The caretaker committee would be meeting on Tuesday at the nationwide secretariat of the party to take a decision on the matter

Bagudu assured that the February date was still sacrosanct.

He stated: “We passed a vote of confidence on the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the celebration led by Governor Mai Mala Buni and two other guvs to name a few, guv Muhammed Bello of Niger State and Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun state, who have actually done an extraordinary task of going out celebration effectively. Mobilising people into the celebration and we are extremely pleased with their conduct.

“We discussed our upcoming convention which you might recall I had cause to attend to journalism after we went to with Mr President in November where Mr President and the party agreed that the convention will happen in February.

“We took inputs about the evaluations and we noted all the misrepresentations in journalism that we look for to fix that the PGF is one unified body as you can see evidently from the presence. Our choice is consentaneous. We are united behind Mr President and we thank him and we are united behind the caretaker committee.

“We are one group of stakeholders in the party and our celebration respects institutions. The suitable organ of the party is the caretaker committee that will reveal a date.”

Those in attendance consisted of the Governors of Borno State, Babagana Zulum; Jigawa State, Mohammad Abubakar; Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu; Niger State, Abubakar Bello; Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai; Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi; and Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.

Others are Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade; Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun; Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle; Ebonyi State, David Umahi; Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola; Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; Imo State, Hope Uzodimma; Plateau State, Solomon Lalong; Kano State, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje; Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule; and Deputy Governor of Anambra, Nkemakonam Okeke.