APC Leadership Crisis: How ProfOsinbajo, Attorney-General Malami Clashed Over Governor Buni-led Committee | Sahara Reporters
The crack in the Muhammadu Buhari-led government over the legality of the chairman of the All Progressives Congress and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has widened as Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has reportedly stood his ground that Buni was ineligible. Three out of the seven justices of the apex court had punctured the legality of Buni chairing the committee, while the four in the lead judgement upheld the election of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu.
“The vice president was very clear that we should all avoid legal trap and address the main issue raised, which is against the country’s constitution and section 17 of our party’s constitution,” he said. “We are hoping that the president, as a promoter of the rule of law, would end this logjam when he arrives. Our attention was not on the legality of governors serving in the party until the apex court drawn our attention to it. With this development, should we not amend our ways?”
“They all agreed to support Buni, irrespective of the legal issues being raised because they have been promised the party’s structures in their respective states. But what they don’t know is that they are building the structures on nothing,” he said. They contended that the signing of Akeredolu’s nomination certificate by the APC’s caretaker committee led by Governor Buni of Yobe State was invalid based on section 183 of the Nigerian constitution, 1999 and Article 17 of the APC constitution.
“The fair trial of such issue in his absence without joining him as a party is impossible. There is no need to stress the point that he is a necessary party to the case because the issue upon which the appellants have predicated their case, namely, the invalidity of the said exhibit itself cannot be fairly, effectually and conclusively be determined without joining him as a party to the case,” Agim held.
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