The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appeased the North Central with the position of National Legal Adviser.
The NEC took the decision at its meeting held on Thursday in Abuja.
The decision became imperative following the resignation of the former National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi Adamu who hails from North Central.
Following Adamu’s resignation, the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) with the blessing of President Bola Tinubu anointed the immediate past Governor of Kano state, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje for the position.
The decision which was ratified at the last NEC meeting saw the position of national chairman moving from North Central to North West.
Against this background, the NEC came up with a new zoning arrangement for filling the six vacant positions of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.
The vacancies in the NWC are occasioned by the death of a member, the resignation of three officers, and nomination of two members of the committee for ministerial appointment.
TheHintsNews reports that the Deputy National Chairman (North) and National Women Leader are ministerial nominees, National Vice Chairman (North West), National Legal Adviser and Deputy National Publicity Secretary resigned from their positions, while the office of the National Welfare Secretary became vacant following the demise of the occupant early this year.
After wide consultations, the NEC decided that the position of National Welfare Secretary and the National Women Leader are retained in the South East and South-South.
Investigation revealed that the resignation of the former National Legal Adviser, Ahmed El-Marzuk, who hails from North West on Wednesday night made the zoning arrangement of the office to the North Central a lot easier.
A party source said recent development in the party necessitated the new zoning arrangement in the party.
The source said: “You will recall that zoning of office was one of the issues on the agenda at our NEC meeting on Thursday. The emergence of the new National Chairman made us adjust the earlier zoning arrangement to cater for the interest of all the geopolitical zones.
“Following the ceding of the NEC powers to the NWC and with the new zoning arrangement, zonal leaders with the affected positions will meet and present nominations to the NWC for approval.
“The new chairman and the secretary and indeed the NWC should swing into action and ensure the needful is done on time to fill the vacant positions in the 25-man administrative organ.”