The national executive committee
of the All Progressive Congress (APC) will decide on the tenure elongation of
John Oyegun as chairman of the ruling party when it meets Tuesday.
The APC chairman’s tenure, which
is to expire June 30, was in February extended by one year.
At the end of the party’ national
caucus meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the state house on Monday,
Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, spoke on the issue.
“It is not a question of my being
worried because I am just one perhaps of millions of APC members,” Dogara said.
“Like I said, certainly it’s
going to be an agenda for the consideration of NEC, whatever NEC decides, that
will be binding on all of us as faithful members of the party.”
Some members of the APC had
dragged the national chairman to court over what they described as “illegal
tenure elongation”.
Others alleged that Odigie-Oyegun
had been running the accounts of the party without recourse to majority of
national officers of the party.
Meanwhile, Oyegun has said any
talk of his removal from office is now history.
He dismissed insinuations that
members of the national caucus deliberated on a court case instituted against
him by some aggrieved members of the party.
“No, the meeting concluded the
agenda we started the last time we met which we did not complete,” he said.
“Today we discussed true
federalism, something a lot more serious, a lot more serious.”
The APC caucus meeting was
attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, former APC governors, members of the
national assembly, ministers, among others.
Bola Tinubu, former Lagos state
governor, and Bisi Akande, former interim leader of the party, were absent at
the meeting.
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