President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed concern over the crisis rocking All Progressive Congress (APC), stressing, “This is a very crucial moment in the life of our Party”.
Speaking today at the Virtual Emergency Meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of APC, the president reiterated that the issues currently confronting the party at this time are such that should worry every Party member.
He highlighted the problems the party is grappling with to include internal wrangling, multiple litigation among some Party members, inability to ascertain the status of certain National Working Committee members, legitimacy of holders of certain National Offices of the Party and Judicial claims and counter-claims, Orders and Counter-Orders and indeed Judgments and Counter-Judgments that are pre-dominantly at cross-purposes.
Buhari pointed out that with the myriad of challenges confronting the party, it is obvious that the fortunes of the Party is currently in jeopardy’
“Administration of our party is becoming impossible and there is consequently an urgent need for intervention to immediately arrest further drifts and internal wrangling which may lead to total disintegration. What we see clearly emerging is that we are beginning to self-destruct. This, my dear Party members, is not just regrettable but utterly gut wrenching. The potential fallout from this conduct will not only cause us to lose the gains that we have laboured for with our sweat over the years, but makes a mockery of our ability to maintain party cohesion and close our ranks. We must return to our winning ways”, he added.
To find a lasting solution to the problems confronting the party, the President ordered immediate discontinuation of all litigation involving members of the Party, which are connected to issues of the Party and in respect of which several Court Orders and Counter-Orders have been issued against the Party and some specific members of the Party.
The President recommended the appointment of caretaker/ Extra-ordinary Convention Planning committee for the Party as well as the dissolution of the party’s current National Working Committee.
