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The All Progressives Congress has distanced itself from the purported zoning arrangements for the 10th National Assembly leadership positions being circulated on social media.

The party said it had yet to zone any position of the incoming National Assembly’s leadership to any of the country’s six geopolitical zones.

The ruling party stated that the zoning information in circulation did not emanate from it and should be disregarded, adding that it would communicate its decisions via its official information channels if there would be such arrangements.

These are contained in a late Thursday statement signed by the APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka.

The statement, which is titled, ‘APC has yet to zone 10th National Assembly leadership positions, read, “The attention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been drawn to versions of zoning arrangements for the 10th National Assembly leadership positions in circulation in sections of social media. The information did not emanate from the Party and should be disregarded.

“To be clear, the Party has yet to zone positions of leadership of the 10th National Assembly. Any decisions made in that regard will be duly communicated via the Party’s official information channels.”

Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.