Sacked APC NWC Makes U-Turn, Declares Support For Buni-Led Caretaker Committee

The Pro-Adams Oshiomhole National Working Committee (NWC) recently dissolved by the National Executive Council of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has reversed its purported plans to seek legal redress against the party.

MERIDIAN SPY reported Thursday, the pro-Oshiomole NWC told Daily Sun in confidence that arrangements have been concluded to seek legal redress.

Faulting NWC’s decision, the aggrieved NWC members insisted that there is no provision of a Caretaker Committee in the constitution of the ruling party, insisting that they have many grounds of infractions committed from the resolutions of NEC.

“We will soon issue statement but we have resolved to head to court for the legal interpretations of the decision of NEC especially as it concerns our dissolution. Yes, we know that Oshiomhole has his faults, but with all the positive contributions he has made to reposition the party, won’t he have been given to honours of telling him to resign?” he queried.

But the immediate past National Secretary of the party, Mallam Waziri Bulama on Friday stated that the ex-NWC members have jettisoned their initial threat to go to court  and have now resolved to work for the rebuilding of the party.

Bulama attributed the crisis to the ambitions of some leaders, adding that the failure of all organs of the party to function effectively affected the party.

But he was however optimistic that the APC would not break up despite the crisis at hand.

“Following consultations with our leaders all the stakeholders, we have accepted the decision of the President on the dissolution of NWC and the setting up of a Caretaker Committee headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni,” said the immediate past national secretary.

“We are respecting the President. We are not antagonistic. All the views we expressed were in the light of the constitution of the party.”

Speaking further on plans to seek redresss, he said, “Consulting our leaders and stakeholders does not mean going to court. We have no such plans.

“We are putting aside all constitutional and legal processes in the overall interest of the party. We have respect for authority, we appeal to all the stakeholders not to escalate the crisis in the party. We will cooperate with Buni’s committee which will organize a convention in the next six months.”

Similarly, the immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu Friday drummed support for the Buni-led Caretaker committee of the party.

Issa-Onilu said that having reflected on the events of the past few days and the outcome of Thursday’s NEC meeting “as a party man, I declare my support for the actions taken by Mr. President”.

He observed that the party was ominously hanging on a cliff and as expected, “something had to give way because the APC could not have continued along that obvious path of destruction”.

He however clarified that he was only speaking for himself and not the dissolved NWC, while calling on every member of the party to rally round the Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary Convention Planning Committee led by Governor Buni, as they embark on the process of rebuilding our party to the height we all desire.

“Ours must be a party that is strong and truly progressive; one that can provide our government the support it requires to deliver more dividends of democracy, he said.

“We all have the obligation to subordinate our individual interests to the collective interests of our government and country.

“The task of preserving President Muhammadu Buhari’s unprecedented legacies is not negotiable.”