APC heading for collapse, NEC members write Buhari
Fears of an imminent implosion in the ranks of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) has been expressed by a forum of the party’s
National Executive Committee (NEC) who have expressed concerns over the
fast dwindling fortunes of the party ahead of the 2019 elections.
The APC NEC forum in a letter it wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari,
called for the Presidents urgent intervention in the affairs of the
party, as well as a change in his administration, warning that the
ruling party may not only face a major destabilising crack, but may
face humiliations at the 2019 poll if nothing is urgently done to arrest
the situation.
The forum in the letter which it titled ‘Save our Party- APC’ and
signed by an APC National Ex-Officio member and South Corrdinator, Hon
Omolayo Akintola decried the leadership of the party’s National Working
Committee (NWC), led by Chief John Oyegun, adding that if nothing is
done by the President, the situation might lead to what it described as
a preventable, avoidable and unnecessary intra-party cracks that the
present situation might generate.
The letter, dated April 6, 2017 which was made available to newsmen in
Abuja, yesterday, dated April 6, 2017 noted that the complaint has
been severally laid to the APC National Chairman, John Odigie- Oyegun,
regretting that there has been no positive response from the NWC
leadership, hence the SOS letter for the Presidents intervention.
It reads: “We strongly feel that an urgent call on the appropriate
quarters of the party be made to ensure that the NEC meeting of our
party as provided by Article 25 of our party constitution is obeyed to
quarantine resolution of matters affecting party amicably.
“We are equally greatly displeased with the ways of handling party
matters solely by the National Working Committee only, without any
recourse to the NEC from which NWC derived her powers.
“Also, to be noted for appropriate advice is the exclusion of
sizeable number of federating states from scheme of things within the
party because many states are not presently represented by party
officers on the current National Working Committee, hence, the need to
be having regular NEC meetings pending the much-awaited amendment to the
present party constitution.- The Authority
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