Seek Disciplinary Action Against Members Suing Party
The forum of non-National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) met in Abuja on Wednesday night and reaffirmed the position of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) on the extension of the tenure of all party executives by one year.
Members of the forum who are also NEC members urged the party to take disciplinary action against party members who have taken the party to court without exhausting internal party mechanism, in line with the party constitution.
The resolutions are contained in a communiqué issued by the forum members comprising a founding member of the APC, Alh. Nasiru Danu, Chairman of the group and Secretary, Hon Omolaoye Akintola and sixteen others after the meeting.
The Communique reads: “The Non-NWC members forum of the ruling Party-APC at her meeting today the 21st March, 2018 passed the following resolutions:
1. Re-affirmed its position taken by NEC at the last NEC meeting of February 27, 2018 principally on the tenure extension to its Party Officers at all levels.
2. Urges the NWC of the Party to take necessary disciplinary action in consonance with the Party constitution in respect of those who sued the Party without exhausting the Party internal mechanism in respect of their complaints or grievances as contained in our Party constitution.”
The APC at the end of its recent 5th NEC generally agreed to extend the tenure of all elected and appointed officers of the Party in the 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the national level.
The current tenure will end on June 30, 2018.
Though the party decision led to recriminations and clarifications by Governors, particularly, Yari of Zamfara state to the effect that the decision ran contrary to the party’s Constitution on the election of officials at national conventions, the party has since marched on
By the decision, all affected officers will continue in acting capacity for another period of 12 months after
the expiration of their current term
