Ebonyi State Governor, Chief David Umahi has threatened to
arrest any stakeholder that would conduct a parallel exercise, as his party,
the All Progressive Congress, APC, holds ward congress today, Saturday.
Umahi equally vowed to send to prison any stakeholder that
caused a crisis or breached peace in the state, especially during the APC
Congresses.
The governor made this known while addressing party
leaders/stakeholders of the state during the emergency APC meeting that took
place at the ecumenical centre, Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state.
It was gathered that the majority of party leaders of
APC agreed on a consensus candidate, while others in seven LGAs of the state
failed to agree and had allegedly resulted in a crisis.
It was gathered that party leaders in Ikwo, Ishielu, Ezza
north, Ohaukwu, Ebonyi, Ohaozara and Ivo local government areas disagreed on
consensus and called for the governor’s intervention.
According to the governor, “Mobilization even when there is
consensus is very important, if the people were not satisfied with the
mobilization we cancel it, because we want the world to know that this is the
home of APC.
“If you have done your consensus and there is no
mobilization to justify that, we will assume you did the election in your
backyard, because we have the party register and let me warn that what you
enter must not go beyond the party registration.
“Let me welcome the seven-man Congress committee to Ebonyi
state, first is to comment on the issue of our contentious National chairman, I
want you to listen to this very well, I’m not a lawyer but this Constitution of
the party is meant for all of us, and if you went to school you will be able to
read and understand. Because if the Constitution of the party is meant for the
lawyers, it should have been on a limited number.
“The Constitution of APC states that where a vacancy exists
in any organ of the party, that the National executive committee should set up
a caretaker committee, and that is what the National committee is.
“Another section I just saw now in article 18 said, “where
the national committee has set up a standing or ad-hoc committee(s) and has
assumed jurisdiction on any issue, no organ of the party shall deliberate upon
or set up a similar or parallel committee, which means that nobody conducts
parallel Congress in Ebonyi state.
“If you see anybody conducting parallel Congress in Ebonyi
state, my directive is that security agencies should arrest anybody that is
there and Ebubeagu should also do the same.
“It’s one contravention of the law of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria and two contravention of the executive order because of Covid-19 and
there is a law on gathering concerning this Covid-19.
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