Nigeria: Nyako, Marwa, Gundiri in Brawl Over APC Structure in Adamawa

8 December 2013

The interim National leadership of All Progressives Congress, APC, headed by Chief Bisi Akande has halted an anticipated Press conference in Yola convened by two former gubernatorial aspirants and their supporters, Brigadier General Buba Marwa, of defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and Mr Markus Gundiri of Action Congress of Nigeria ACN.

Journalists who were already at the venue of the Press Conference expecting the organisers to give reasons for convening the conference were stunned when the news reached them that the national leadership of APC has instructed the two aligning groups not to go ahead with the press conference. A source in one of the groups, claimed that the press conference was intended to inform the leadership of APC that they would not allow Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa state to take over the structure of the party as the leader of the party .

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