Immediate past National chairman of the All Progressive
party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has faulted the revalidation of the membership
of the party by the party’s Interim Caretaker Committee saying that it was contrary
to the party’s constitution.
Oshiomhole stated yesterday while fielding questions from
journalists shortly after revalidating his membership of the party at Unit 1,
ward 10, Iyamho, Etsako West local government of Edo state, He said,”APC is govern by a
constitution and not by man, the constitution only provides for registration
and I registered as a member of the APC in 2014 under the Interim national
chairman Chief Bisi Akande,” “There is nothing in the APC constitution that
says a member shall revalidate or renew its membership.
Once you registered when you joined the party and you have
not decamped, you are a member .
So revalidation is strange to our constitution,” “I have
only done this because I want peace to reign but in doing this, we have to be
careful not to create constitutional breach,” He however noted that between
2015 and now people have exited from the party and others have joined party
while some have died, adding that it make sense to review the register so that
those who have decamped to APC will be registered while those who have left would be delete. ” If you ask me as a
foundation member who have never decamped to revalidate my membership, it is double registration because there is
nothing like revalidation in our constitution.
”
By asking me to revalidate my membership means I was not a member
when I have never leave the party, so I think the correct language should
be either reviewing or updating because
it make sense to review voters register due to the new members that have joined
or those that have exited,”.
He said the party has been updating its register from time
to time, noting that most of the governors under the party today became members
following voters register update hence they were able to contest the
governorship election under the party.
“So what this means
now is that I have come here to do another registration but I insist that my
registration never expired within the provision of the APC constitution,”. He
said, “as for me, I think we should just moved on, I am happy I just did it but
I don’t need it because my membership has not expired and it can only expired
when I decamped, and if I am returning
then I can revalidate,”.
“History didn’t just begin today, if we don’t have a valid
register, how did we conducted the congress in 2015 in which 16 million
registered APC members voted to
nominate president Muhammadu Buhari
before the general election,”. He said at one of the party National Executive
Council meeting in Abuja when he was
the national chairman, he has the honour
of presenting membership card to President Buhari.
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