Two Days to NEC, APC Govs Still Divided on Oshiomhole
Appeal Court to decide stay mondayAkande is disturbed, laments multiple litigationAhead of Tuesday’s National Executive Committee meeting of the All Progressives Congress , there are strong indications that critical stakeholders are still sharply divided on the question of removing the embattled National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, from office. Ten governors of the party are said to have made up their minds that he must go, while 10 have vowed to back him.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the APC reconciliation committee and former protem national chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande, has lamented the multiple litigation in the party, saying a resort to the courts is not the solution to the crisis plaguing the ruling party. Those who attended the South-south meeting included Obaseki, who hosted it; Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Godswil Akpabio; Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo; Minister of State for Power, Jeddy Agba; and the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire.
“That we fully support the convening of the National Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday, March 17th, as the NEC is the only recognised organ under the constitution of our party to resolve these crises; that we insist that the party should respect the current zoning arrangement by retaining the chairmanship of our great party in the South-south zone even in an acting capacity.
Curiously, the APC constitution has no provision for a caretaker committee. This is where those asking that a former governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajumobi, should be made deputy national chairman, which could have put him in a better position to take over from Oshiomhole, lost it, because the APC constitution has made it impossible.
One of the governors stated, “We are planning to form a new forum: the Progressives First Term Governors Forum. The formation of the forum is to clearly underscore our displeasure regarding how the Progressives Governors Forum is being run.” “We will not let them destroy the young party and the successes it has attained so far. They are misrepresenting the president and misleading Nigerians on what the president said.”
One of the first-term governors said, “We are going to move a vote of no confidence on the chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, Abubakar Bagudu. Most of the issues they have against Oshiomhole are based on the fact that they see the national chairman of the party as a threat to their interests.
According to the governors, who all shared concern about the conduct of Lukan, “The views often expressed by the DG do not summarise the thinking of all the governors.” If the NEC meeting eventually holds as scheduled, the NWC source disclosed that the two national officers – the Deputy National Chairman for the North, Alhaji Shuaibu Lawal and National Vice Chairman, Mallam Inuwa Abdulkadir, who have been on suspension, would be called back.
Specifically, the source explained that APC “is using the zoning structure it adopted in 2014, and nothing has changed. For instance, when Alhaji Lai Mohammed left the NWC in 2015, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi from his zone and state replaced Mohammed as National Publicity Secretary. He also said, “I am a bit taken aback by the swift resort to the courts by some members, who seek external decisions on what are intrinsically internal matters best determined by the deliberative process that is part and parcel of democratically-oriented party politics.
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