APC cracks as NEC members write Buhari

…Say, ‘NWC has failed’

A forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Council (NEC) members has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari demanding for urgent NEC meeting of the party, decrying the leadership of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) led by the National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun.

The forum said that if nothing is done by the President, the situation might lead to “preventable, avoidable and unnecessary intra-party cracks that the present situation might generate”.

A copy of the letter signed by a National Ex-official, South-west coordinator, Hon. Omolayo O. Akintola, which was made available to newsmen in Abuja, on Sunday, dated April 6, 2017, tagged “Save our party-APC”, was addressed to President Buhari.

The APC Non-NWC (NEC) members’ forum is a body of national officers of the party who are not members of the National Working Committee.

The forum complained that they have written several letters to the National Chairman, Chief Oyegun, without any positive reaction, hence this ‘Save our party’s’ request.

It reads: “We strongly feel that an urgent call on the appropriate quarters of the party be made to ensure that NEC meeting of our party as provided by Article 25 of our party constitution is obeyed to quarantine resolution of matters affecting the party amicably.

“We are equally greatly displeased with the ways of handling party matters solely by the National Working Committee only without any recourse to the NEC from which NWC derived her powers.

“Also to be noted for appropriate advice is the exclusion of sizable number of federating states from scheme of things within the party because many states are not presently represented by party officers on the current National Working Committee, hence, the need to be having regular NEC meetings pending the much awaited amendment to the present party constitution.

“We, therefore, deemed it necessary putting this letter across for your timely actions to save our great party from preventable, avoidable and unnecessary party in-house cracks that the present situation might generate.
“We strongly believe in your Excellency’s ability and sagacity to normalise things within a good time frame”.