The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it has not fallen short of the law in anyway with regards to the letter it sent to the Independent National Electoral Commision (INEC) to monitor its forthcoming National Convention.<\/p>\n
Mr Ismail Ahmed, the National Youth Leader in the APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), said this on Friday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the APC National Convention has been slated for March 26 to elect new national executives to manage the party\u2019s affairs, which is presently being managed by its CECPC.<\/p>\n
The INEC in a letter, had rejected an invitation to an emergency meeting of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) ahead of its natioal convention.INEC\u2019s response, dated March 9 and signed by its Secretary, Rose Anthony, was titled: \u201cRe: Invitation to the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee\u201d, and addressed to the National Chairman, APC CECPC.The commission drew the attention of the APC CECPC to the fact that the letter of invitation was not signed by Gov. Mai Mala Buni, the National Chairman APC CECPC, and its Secretary, Sen. John Akpanudoedehe, in accordance with extant laws.According to the commission, this is contrary to the provision of Article 1.1.3 of INEC Regulations and Guidelines for Political Party Operations (2018).<\/p>\n
Ahmed, however, said the APC had complied with all the rules and had appropriately notified INEC, adding that it is no longer an issue.He added that Prof. Tahir Maman, who oversees the party\u2019s legal department would speak on the issue in due time.<\/p>\n
\u201cAPC national convention would hold on March 26. I\u2019m not only a youth leader, I\u2019m also a lawyer. And we have served a notice to INEC for the 26th of February earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe served that notice on Feb. 5 and that was the required 21 days. If you are going to make any adjustment to that date all you need is a letter making an adjustment to the date.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need another 21 days and that letter was written about two weeks ago, when we realised that we couldn\u2019t hold it on Feb. 26.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moment, the CECPC agreed on March 26 as date for the\u00a0 national convention, that letter was written to INEC. INEC has accepted that letter. So that is long gone; is not an issue,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
He maintained that the March 26 date for the party\u2019s national convention was not an issue, saying that the date is settled and sacrosanct.<\/p>\n
On the current position of Gov. Mai Mala Buni, Ahmed said he was only on medical leave and would resume soon, wondering why it was difficult for some individuals to believe that.He explained that since the inauguration of the CECPC in June 25, 2020, Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger had always acted whenever Buni was absent.\u201c<\/p>\n
It has always been the case, that has never changed, and now we have a convention on March 26, the chairman wrote a letter to go for medical treatment and transmitted power to Bello.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are two emergencies, he has a medical emergency that cannot wait for convention. We have a convention that cannot wait for him to be healthy, so one has to leave for other.<\/p>\n
\u201cGov.\u00a0 Bello has been acting appropriately and there is no problem about that,\u201d Ahmed said, wondering why people are making an issue out of the development.He added that Bello was acting with the full authority of the APC CECPC and the party\u2019s stakeholders, leaders and with the full consent and knowledge of Buni.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now we are doing it with the full authority and backing of the law, so there is no ambiguity in this, absolutely none.<\/p>\n
\u201cPower by the chairmanship was transmitted to Gov. Bello and he is fully driving it right now, and we are moving towards convention with the speed that is needed,\u201d Ahmed said.<\/p>\n
He added that if anyone had issues on decisions taken by the party on its leadership, he could go to the court.He however appealed to the media to be responsive in their reportage and to always verify information before publishing.Ahmed stressed that reports on the social media should be taken with a pinch of salt as they could be planted to score a political point, saying that the party\u2019s leadership is open to the media always for clarifications of issues. (NAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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