The governing All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday calmed frayed nerves among party faithful, saying in spite of the constitutional issues raised in
“I told our client, Buni and the secretary, yesterday not to be intimidated by anybody. Our party remains firm; the congresses of the party will go on as scheduled on Saturday. By the grace of God everything that has been put in place will come to fruition. You can imagine the kind of confusion that the country would have been thrown into if the judgement of yesterday had gone the other way.
“The All Progressives Congress Ward Congresses to elect party executives will hold across the country on Saturday, July 31st 2021 as scheduled. “Party members and aspirants should therefore come out en masse and peacefully to participate in the ward Congresses, come Saturday”. “In answering the above question, it is pertinent to reproduce the provisions of Section 183 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as follows:
“Without prejudice to the ratio decidendi of the majority decision of the Court, it is imperative to state pressistimo and very clearly too that with the unanimous position of the Apex Court that it appears the actions of the All Progressives Congress in permitting a sitting Governor as the Interim Chairman of the Party is in violation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is my sincere view that the Interim Chairman of the All Progressive Congress should immediately step...
They recalled the it has long been in contention whether unelected officers of a political party can exercise the powers of party vested in the chairman and officers of the party who ought, by party’s constitution, to be elected at duly convened convention of the Party at the National level and congresses at State and other levels.Meanwhile, there were indications yesterday that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Rivers State government may have reconciled ahead of the 2023 polls.
He said, “The issues on how to ensure unity and stability in the PDP that are critical for the party in clinching electoral victory in 2023.
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