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• Party may expel Giadom for declaring self chair to replace OshiomholeThere was confusion in Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, on Wednesday as it produced two acting national chairmen within a period of 12 hours., who was disqualified by the party from contesting its June 22 governorship primary met with the governors of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja on Wednesday night.
But the APC’s Deputy National Secretary, Victor Gaidom, during a press conference at the party’s national secretariat at 11am on Wednesday declared himself as the acting national chairman and went ahead to nullify the screening conducted last week for Edo State governorship aspirants. But on Tuesday, there were fears that the former Oyo State governor might not be able to act as national chairman as he was reported to be receiving treatment for COVID-19 in a Lagos hospital.
Giadom, at the press conference, addressed himself as the acting national chairman based on a subsisting court order which earlier empowered him to act as the head of the party when Oshiomhole was first suspended in March. He further said, “As your acting National Chairman and presiding officer in the NWC, we therefore cancel the decision of the screening and appeal committees of the former chairman of the party on the Edo primary. This is in strict compliance with provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria that forbids anyone who is interested in a case to be a judge in the same case.”
Eta further explained that the NWC under the leadership of Ajimobi, had set up committees for the Edo State governorship primary scheduled for June 22 and the election appeal scheduled for June 24. Others are Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari; Alhaji Adamu Fanda ; Lanre Isa-Onilu ; Alhaji Tajudeen Bello; Paul Chukwuma ; Hajiya Salamatu Balwa Umar-Eluma; Alhaji Sadiq S. Abubakar and Misbahu Lawal Didi .
According to Article 21 D, such sanctions include reprimand, explusion, censure and debarment from contesting on the platform of the party.
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