Some members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) have
issued a 14-day ultimatum to the party’s caretaker committee, led by Mai Mala
Buni, to set up a panel for the party’s national convention.
After the national working committee under the leadership of
Adams Oshiomhole was dissolved, Buni was
asked to run the affairs of the party pending when new officials will be
elected.
In a statement signed by Abdullahi Dauda, spokesman of a
group of APC members, alleged that instead of making plans for the December
national convention, the committee is “scheming to extend their tenure for
another one year”.
Dauda said the caretaker committee has failed in carrying
out its assignment, alleging that the committee “is planning registration of
members which is not part of the resolution of the last NEC”.
“We are Concerned APC
members, who have watched with amazement and disillusionment for several months
the inability of the APC Caretaker Committee to provide direction for the party
and set up a timetable for December elective convention,” the group said.
“We are not out to discredit the conscientious efforts of
President Muhammadu Buhari and his team that have taken commendable steps to
fight for the progress of the party by setting up the present Caretaker
Committee to save the party from internal crisis but to bring to his notice
that there are certain areas that the Governor Mai Mala Buni led Caretaker
Committee has outrightly failed, especially as it concerns the non-compliance
to the scheduled December National Convention.
“We are less than two months away from the December deadline
and no meaningful plan is in place for the much-awaited convention.
“The Buni led
Committee has shown in its actions that tenure elongation is its priority and
being stakeholders in the Party, we see the urgent need to speak out loudly on
time to save our party from another round of self-inflicted crisis.
“We are aware that the composition of the committee is
illegal and alien to our party’s constitution abnitio and we are aware some
members are in court already as regards that anomaly but due to our respect for
Mr President, we allowed the process as a child of necessity and supported it
but the present action and body language of the committee necessitated our
press conference today.”
“We call on the committee to let legally elected and
constituted NWC to come and conduct the new membership registration for the
party and jettison this idea”.
On the Edo election, the party members said the committee
lost out in its first assignment in the state “where it allegedly conspired
with some over-ambitious Governors to sabotage the party”.
“We have it on good
authority that Governor Buni personally called Caretaker Committee members not
to go for campaigns in Edo. This act of betrayal to a party that has done so
much for him is condemnable,” the statement read.
“Ondo would have been another disappointment but for the
unity of purpose by leadership of the South West zone to avoid another
embarrassing outing.”
The group also asked the president to call the Buni-led
caretaker committee to order “before it buries the party”.
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