Sacking APC’s NWC Appropriate — Tony Momoh

A Former Minister of Information, Chief Tony Momoh, says the National Executive Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) acted appropriately in sacking the crisis-torn National Working Committee (NWC) of the governing party

“What the NEC has done is not strange; They have the constitutional powers to dissolve the NWC and what they have just done is to exercise that power”, he said

Speaking in telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thursday, Chief Momoh said the NEC was only exercising its constitutional mandate that includes powers to dissolve the NWC.

The APC NEC had, at a special emergency meeting on Thursday st the Presidential Villa, Abuja, dissolved the party’s NWC following the leadership crisis rocking the party in the last couple of months.

He explained that NEC could take such decision when some pending issues in the party could not be resolved by the Party’s NWC.

The former minister, however, said it was not for him to say whether the dissolution was good for the progress of the party or not.

“In the party’s hierarchy, the NEC is higher, so, it can take certain decisions that will be binding on NWC; again such decisions will have to be ratified by the party’s convention.

“So, I can’t say whether the dissolution is good or not. But what is clear is that the NEC can take decisions to resolve lingering issues in the party,” he said.

Momoh said anybody, including members of the dissolved NWC, could still aspire to the leadership positions of the party at the national convention.

The APC Chieftain stressed the need to hold NEC meetings every quarter as enshrined in the party’s constitution, noting that regular holding of NEC meetings would help stabilise and strengthen the party going forward.

Following the NWC’s dissolution, the NEC appointed a Caretaker Committee, headed by Governor Mai Buni of Yobe State to pilot the affairs of the party for six months. – NAN