Governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress are currently locked in a crucial meeting behind closed doors.
The meeting which is currently holding at the Imo State Governor’s Lodge, started close to an hour ago.
Although details of the meeting are still sketchy, it was gathered that the governors are meeting to deliberate on the issue of mode of primaries and the composition of the screening committees.
The party is yet to make public the list of members of the screening committees.
The National Executive Committee of the party had, at its last meeting, settled for the direct mode of primaries while asking the states interested in holding indirect primaries to select their candidates to write to the party leadership.
A decision by some governors and their supporters to select candidates by consensus and indirect primaries had led to protests from some stakeholders, who insisted on the direct primary.
Ambode and the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have been in the news in the past few days over the second term bid of Ambode.
Tinubu had refused to back Ambode’s second term ambition despite pleas by notable people in the state and the country.
Instead, the Tinubu-led Mandate Movement in the Lagos APC had backed Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who obtained his form last Tuesday.
The chairmen of the 57 councils had also declared support for Sanwo-Olu
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