The APC’s highest ranking members in the legislature are conspicuously absent from its NEC meeting. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and his deputy, Yusuf Lasun, are two notable absentees from the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling party, the All Progressives’ Congress (APC).The party’s NEC is currently meeting at the APC secretariat in Abuja but its highest ranking members in the legislature are conspicuously absent.The party’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, expressed the apologies of the absent parties to the present members which included President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.One of the key decisions expected to be taken at the meeting is whether to adopt direct or indirect methods for the party’s primary elections for the upcoming 2019 general elections.While the party employed the indirect delegate system for the 2015 general elections, the direct method, which allows all registered party members to vote, was adopted for the Osun Governorship primary election which Lasun contested in and lost and publicly expressed reservations against.Dogara has also long been rumoured to be set to follow in the footsteps of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, in dumping the APC for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
