A fresh crisis has broken out in
the African Action Congress (AAC), one of the parties that participated in the
2019 elections.
Omoyele Sowore, its presidential
candidate, and the leadership of the AAC, engaged in what could be described as
a “show of strength” on Monday.
Mazi Okwy, a member of the AAC
national executive committee (NEC), had announced the suspension of Sowore over
“failure to convene national executive council (NEC) meeting, financial misappropriation
and other anti-party activities”.
He said the party had appointed
Leonard Ezenwa as acting national chairman, with one Abayomi Olufemi as his
deputy.
Okwy said the suspension was
based “particularly on inflow of illegal foreign funds into the party and
personally retaining same in contravention of Section 225 (3)(4) of the 1999
Constitution (as amended), together with eight others.”
However, in reaction, Sowore
announced the suspension of top members of the party and expulsion of Nzenwa.
In a statement he personally
signed as “national chairman’ of the party, Sowore described those suspended as
“misguided individuals”.
“It has come to the notice of the
office of the Chairman of the African Action Congress that a group of suspended
members, induced by financial reasons and anti-progressive politics, gathered
in Abuja today, 13th May, 2019, and purportedly held a NEC meeting,” the
statement read.
“These members, led by Leonard
Nzenwa, former national secretary, who was suspended for financial impropriety
and anti-party activities, have demonstrated by their actions that they have
never been, and have never shared, the core beliefs that those of us in the
African Action Congress hold.
“Leonard Nzenwa is hereby
expelled from the party, and the misguided individuals who participated in the
Abuja meeting are suspended from the party until investigations reveal the
extent of their involvement.”
This crisis comes after the
controversy which broke out as a result of the endorsement of the party by
Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, in the Rivers governorship
election.
Akpo Yeeh, deputy governorship
candidate of the AAC in Rivers, had resigned his membership of the party over
what he described as undue interference by Amaechi.
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