The All Progressives Congress has yet to decide on the date for its national convention, It was gathered on Tuesday that among the issues delaying the convention was the fact that the Anambra and Zamfara State chapters of the party had yet to conduct membership registration/revalidation as well as congresses.
The APC leaders, who confided in Punch said, multiple cases arising from the party’s state congresses contributed in no small measure to the uncertainty over the convention date. Party members in no fewer than 13 states, where parallel congresses were held, on Tuesday, said they would not withdraw court cases they filed to challenge the congresses.
Other aggrieved members stated that although they did not file any suit, they expected party leaders to ensure justice in resolving the crises that arose from the congresses. The APC had on July 31, 2021 held its ward congresses, followed by local government congresses on September 4, and state congresses on October 16.
It was gathered that the national convention, which was initially scheduled to hold in December 2020, was postponed till June 2021 after a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the party, which was presided over by the President Muhammadu Buhari and held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on December 8, 2020.
The Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee was inaugurated in June 2020 and given six months within which to conduct the convention.
It was given an additional six months on December 8, 2020, which expired in June 2021. However, when this lapsed on June 26, 2021, another NEC meeting presided over by Buhari approved an indefinite timeline for the committee to achieve its objectives.
The new Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, shortly after his election at the party’s national convention on Sunday, mocked the APC over its inability to hold a national convention.
Ayu said the ruling party had produced 92 chairmen in the 36 states of the federation. Sources in the APC said on Tuesday the party would not rush to hold its national convention and land itself in a bigger crisis.“We have many things to resolve. It is after we have done those things that we can announce the date for the convention,” a party leader stated.
Report by Punch.
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