Kano and Sokoto states were missing as the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) inaugurated 34 state chairmen in Abuja.
The inauguration was done at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday amidst tight security.
The state chairmen emerged from the state congresses conducted in October last year.
They were administered the oath of office by Governor Mai Mala Buni, who was represented by the APC National Secretary, Dr John Akpanudoedehe.
The event was held despite parallel congresses in Oyo, Kwara, Delta, Osun, Enugu, Niger, Akwa Ibom, Kano among others.
However, Kano and Sokoto states were absent from the list.
The inaugurated state chairmen are Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu (Abia), Ibrahim Bilal (Adamawa), Augustine Ekanem (Akwa Ibom), Basil Ejike (Anambra), Babayo Misau (Bauchi), Dr. Dennis Otiotio (Bayelsa), Augustine Agada (Benue), Ali Dalori (Borno), and Alphonsus Eba (Cross River).
THere were also Omeni Sabotie (Delta), Stanley Emegha (Ebonyi), Col David Imuse (retd.) (Edo), Omotosho Ayodele (Ekiti), Ogochukwu Agballah (Enugu), Nitte Amangal (Gombe), Dr Macdonald Ebere (Imo), Aminu Gumel (Jigawa), Air Cdre Emmanuel Jekada (retd.) (Kaduna), Muhammed Sani (Katsina), Abubakar Kana (Kebbi) and Abdullahi Bello (Kogi).
Others are Sunday Fagbemi (Kwara), Cornelius Ojelabi (Lagos), John Mamman (Nasarawa), Haliru Jikantoro (Niger), Yemi Sanusi (Ogun), Ade Adetimehin (Ondo), Adegboyega Famodun (Osun), Isaac Omodewu (Oyo), Rufus Bature (Plateau), Emeka Bekee (Rivers). Ibrahim El-Sudi (Taraba), Muhammed Gadaka (Yobe), Tukur Danfulani (Zamfara) and Abdulmalik Usman (FCT), were also inaugurated.
