APC constitutes reconciliation c’ttees

The national leadership of the APC has set up peace and reconciliation committees to intervene in the crises ravaging some of its state chapters.

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, said in a statement yesterday that the APC National Working Committee (NWC) took the decision because it was disturbed by the internal crises in some state chapters.

Abdullahi said some state chapters of the APC had recently been engulfed in internal crises, leading to suspensions of party leaders and other members.

“Concerned by this ugly trend and as part of preparation for its non-elective national convention, which is expected to hold not later than April 2017, the NWC has decided to set up the committees to resolve all outstanding issues in order for the party to have a united front going to the convention,” he said.

He said the committees would be made up of senior party members and some members of the National Executive Committee (NEC), with the mandate to investigate all issues with view to finding a lasting solution and reconciling members in the affected states.

The APC spokesman said the party had, in the interim, directed that where actions had been taken and disciplinary measured applied, state chapters should be strictly guided by the relevant provisions of the party’s constitution on disciplinary procedures.

Where those actions have been taken in breach of the processes and procedures that are laid down in the party constitution, he added, such actions should be reversed and the status quo maintained pending the intervention of the peace and reconciliation committees.

By this development, the ouster of the APC State chairman in Kano State, Umar Haruna Doguwa, and that of the party’s deputy national publicity secretary, Comrade Timi Frank may be quashed.

He said the so-called disciplinary actions being planned against Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State and Senator Shehu Sani of Kaduna State may also be stopped by the action of the peace and reconciliation committees.