…As fate of NWC, Ize-Iyamu, Oshiomhole hang in the balance
A High Court of Plateau State siting in Jos, on Wednesday granted an Order compelling the Acting National Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Victor Giadom, to proceed with the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold on Thursday, June 25th, 2020. The Court Order was granted upon an Application by the Chairman of the Plateau State chapter of the APC, Mr. Latep Dabang.
Dabang, who is a member of the APC NEC complained that the provision of the Party’s Constitution regarding the convening of a quarterly NEC meeting has been serially abused and ignored by the present National Working Committee (NWC) of the party thus leading to a litany of illegalities by the national leadership.
The Court Order is coming against the backdrop of the recognition granted Gaidom as Acting National Chairman of the APC by President Muhammadu Buhari.
President Buhari through his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu also gave approval for the convening of an emergency NEC meeting to address the challenges and leadership crises bedeviling the Party.
It was gathered that invitation letters for the NEC meeting have been sent out to the Governors on the platform of the party and key members of the National Assembly who are NEC members.
It was gathered that while the APC Governors and lawmakers would be accommodated at the Council Chambers with President Buhari, others members of the NEC would be expected to join and participate in the meeting through virtual means.
As a confirmation that President Buhari has endorsed the NEC meeting and as part of measures to check uninvited guests to the NEC meeting, the visitors list at the Presidential Villa has been carefully filled with names of only members of the NEC expected to participate at the meeting.
It was also gathered that the other members of the NWC who are likely to be shown the way out through dissolution of the National leadership were not invited to the meeting.
It was also not clear if the National leader of the Party, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu was invited to attend the meeting.
