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Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria on Sunday in Daura, Katsina state met behind closed doors with Imo and Zamfara Governors Rochas Okorocha, Abdul aziz Yari.
The President’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad confirmed this development on his Twitter handle on Sunday.
“President Muhammadu Buhari this evening received chairman of the Progressives Governors‘Forum (PGF), Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo,” he wrote.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting, Okorocha, said that he updated the president on the outcome of the ward congresses conducted by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) across the country.
He frowned at the way some members of the party in some states conducted themselves during the exercise, saying the party would check such incidents in future.
“We expect internal democracy and internal democracy is the way to go. Those kind of funny politics that were played must stop, where people want to carry ballot boxes, steal results looks so primitive.
“I intimated Mr President and we will make sure that such things must stop.’’
On the president’s response, the governor said; “He spoke like the President and he will take the necessary steps to correct this in our party, APC, not just in Imo but across the whole nation, to make sure that there is respect for internal democracy.”
However,Yari, who spoke on the outcome of the ward congresses, said the exercise went well in the North West region.
“You know in a democracy you cannot expect everything to work 100 percent. But in our region from the information available to us, everything went well in Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kano, where people expected that there may be a problem, the exercise was successful.
“But anybody that has complain, there is a committee set up by the national executive of the party, they should take their complains there so that they will be attended to.”
