Buhari, Stalwarts Storm APC’s NEC Meeting

BY SEGUN ADEBAYO, ABUJA – The fence-mending process within the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) continues today, Tuesday, March 27 as President Muhammadu Buhari leads top Party’s stalwarts to attend the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting currently going on in Abuja.

Rising from its resumed National Caucus meeting Monday night at the Presidential Villa, those expected to grace the meeting, which has constitutional amendment; True Federalism committee; and tenure extension for all party’s structure topping the agenda, are APC Governors, principal officers of the party in the National Assembly, members of its Board of Trustee and National Working Committee (NWC) among others.

APC National Publicity Secretary, Mr Bolaji Abdullahi told newsmen in Abuja that; “It is going to be a routine NEC meeting which is a final leg of the meeting that was held last month.

“If you recall after the NEC meeting last, month, I told you that two issues were outstanding and that members asked for more time to study those issues.”

Abdullahi listed the issues as that of constitutional amendment and the True Federalism committee report, adding; “These are the two key items on the agenda for tomorrow’s NEC meeting.”

At its February 26, 2018 NEC meeting, the APC, in controversial circumstances, extended the tenure of the party`s National Working Committee (NEC) and other executive members across all levels by one year starting from June.

The tenure elongation, though described by the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, as a decision taken in good faith, has seen some party members dragging the party to court seeking an order quash the NEC decision as unconstitutional.

Going forward the decision has continued to cause ripples within the Party’s hierarchy and structure with the APC Forum of non-National Working Committee (NWC) throwing its weight behind party’s NEC tenure extension for all its executives.

In reaffirming the NEC’s position, the Forum demanded that sanctions be imposed on aggrieved members that dragged the party to court without exhausting all internal mechanisms.

With feelers from Monday night National Caucus, security was beefed at the national secretariat of the party in readiness for the NEC meeting.