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Crisis is brewing in the APC over the replacement of suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
Lawal was a member of the National Working Committee, NWC as the APC National Vice-Chairman in the North-East.
Most stakeholders from the zone, according to Punch, were favourably disposed to having a congress to elect a replacement for the suspended SGF.
However, it was heard that some party leaders were working behind the scene to impose a replacement on them. This made some aggrieved aspirants to submit a petition to the party's chairman John Odigie-Oyegun to stop the move.
The petition was entitled ‘Complaint on the brazen abuse of due process and injustice in the nomination for the replacement of the National Vice-Chairman, North East’.
“We write to express our sadness and total dissatisfaction with the way the National Secretary of our great party (Mai Mala Buni) handled the process for the replacement of the vacant position of the National Vice-Chairman (North-East), which was zoned to Adamawa State at the APC National Convention in 2014 and was declared vacant at the last NEC meeting.
“While we were busy with consultations and waiting for a date the national secretariat will convene the North-East congress, we received the shock of our lives through the social media that the NWC met on June 19, 2017, and approved the nomination of one Mustapha Salihu as the National Vice-Chairman North-East.”
They noted that the action if true, was completely at variance with Articles 20 (a) and 25 (c)(ii) of the party’s constitution as well as democratic tenets, social justice, rule of law and the change mantra which the APC was predicated upon.
The petitioners demanded, among other things, the cancellation and withdrawal of the said letter dated July 19, 2017, issued to Salihu and a declaration of same as null and void and of no effect.
They also called on the party to direct the immediate convening of the North-East Congress, to democratically conclude the process for choosing a replacement into all vacant party positions in the North-East as stipulated in the APC constitution.
They gave the party a 7-day ultimatum to meet their demands.
The petition was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya-Abbas and Umar Sanda-Sani.
Lawal was a member of the National Working Committee, NWC as the APC National Vice-Chairman in the North-East.
Most stakeholders from the zone, according to Punch, were favourably disposed to having a congress to elect a replacement for the suspended SGF.
However, it was heard that some party leaders were working behind the scene to impose a replacement on them. This made some aggrieved aspirants to submit a petition to the party's chairman John Odigie-Oyegun to stop the move.
The petition was entitled ‘Complaint on the brazen abuse of due process and injustice in the nomination for the replacement of the National Vice-Chairman, North East’.
“We write to express our sadness and total dissatisfaction with the way the National Secretary of our great party (Mai Mala Buni) handled the process for the replacement of the vacant position of the National Vice-Chairman (North-East), which was zoned to Adamawa State at the APC National Convention in 2014 and was declared vacant at the last NEC meeting.
“While we were busy with consultations and waiting for a date the national secretariat will convene the North-East congress, we received the shock of our lives through the social media that the NWC met on June 19, 2017, and approved the nomination of one Mustapha Salihu as the National Vice-Chairman North-East.”
They noted that the action if true, was completely at variance with Articles 20 (a) and 25 (c)(ii) of the party’s constitution as well as democratic tenets, social justice, rule of law and the change mantra which the APC was predicated upon.
The petitioners demanded, among other things, the cancellation and withdrawal of the said letter dated July 19, 2017, issued to Salihu and a declaration of same as null and void and of no effect.
They also called on the party to direct the immediate convening of the North-East Congress, to democratically conclude the process for choosing a replacement into all vacant party positions in the North-East as stipulated in the APC constitution.
They gave the party a 7-day ultimatum to meet their demands.
The petition was signed by Dr. Umar Duhu, Mr. Usman Iya-Abbas and Umar Sanda-Sani.
