'Put your personal interests in your pocket' - Buhari tells APC's members

The All Progressives Congress (APC) hold its National Executive Council meeting at the party secretariat in Abuja today Friday July 3.

Here's what Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told APC members during his opening remarks at the party's NEC meeting.

"Whatever your personal interests, put them in your pocket. Let APC work. Let the system work. I appeal to you to accept the superiority of the party. I cannot confine myself in Sambisa forest and refuse to participate in the meeting because I respect the superiority of the party.''

President Muhammadu Buhari chaired today’s meeting. The APC’s national leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu, was conspicuously absent from today’s meeting, according to SaharaReporters.

Participants at the meeting included the APC’s national chairman, John Oyegun, controversial Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, representative Femi Gbajabiamila and all APC governors and other members of the National Executive Committee.