APC forum wants those against tenure extension punished

The forum of non-National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the party leadership to take disciplinary action against members who have taken the party to court without exhausting its internal arbitration mechanism over the tenure extension resolution. The forum, which membership rose from the National Executive Committee (NEC), made the call in Abuja in a communiqué issued at the end of a meeting held in Abuja on Monday. It reaffirmed the position of the party’s NEC to extend the tenure of all party executives by one year in the communiqué issued by the members comprising a founding member of the APC, Alh. Nasiru Danu and 17 others after.

“The Non-NWC members forum of the ruling Party-APC at its meeting on March 21, 2018 passed the following resolutions: “Re-affirms its position taken by NEC at the last NEC meeting of February 27, 2018 principally on the tenure extension to its party officers at all levels; “urges the NWC of the party to take necessary disciplinary action in consonance with the party constitution in respect of those who sued the party without exhausting the party internal mechanism in respect of their complaints or grievances as contained in our party constitution,” the communique read.

The 5th APC NEC meeting had agreed to extend the tenure of all elected and appointed officers of the party in the 36 states, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the national level which current tenure would end on June 30, 2018.

By the decision, all affected officers will continue in acting capacity for another period of 12 months after the expiration of their current term.

The NEC decision had raised dust in the party as some members had sued the leadership over the tenure extension resolution.

On Wednesday, the APC Publicity Secretary in Zamfara State, Alhaji Sani Gwamna Mayanchi, said they had gone to court to challenge the “illegal” tenure elongation of the Chief John OdigieOyegun-led NWC.

Mayanchi said they had filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja seeking the nullification of the tenure extension.

He said fresh election must hold at the expiration of the NWC’s tenure by June 30, 2018.

The court hearing. has fixed March 27, for