APC crisis: NWC lifts suspensions of Shuaibu, Abdukadir

.Says all pending court cases should be withdrawn

.I’ll mend my ways, Oshiomhole begs aggrieved members

.Bulama loses out as Ajimobi, Giadom, others attend post – crisis NWC meeting

Temporary peace returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday as reasonable decisions towards resolving lingering crisis were reached at the National Working Committee meeting held at the party’s secretariat, Abuja.

At the end of the meeting, national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, announced the lifting of all suspension which the APC placed on some members of the party National Working Committee (NWC) including the National Vice Chairman (North), Lawal Shuaibu, and the Deputy Chairman (North West), Inuwa Abdulkadir who were readmitted into the party immediately.

He said the NWC also resolved that all pending court cases at the wake of the crisis should be withdrawn to pave way for genuine reconciliation of all aggrieved members.

Oshiomhole said “the NWC members have resolved unanimously that all issues and litigations pending in the court by any member of the committee should be withdrawn forthwith”.

He said the party has moved on peacefully, against the expectations of many who waited for fights to erupt in the party, adding that what binds the members of the NWC is far above the intrigues which play out in the contestations within the ranks.

According to Oshiomhole, the NWC members, at the meeting, resolved to pursue big issues, including activating its powers to invite ministers, including the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, to appear before the party’s working committee to explain why the Nigeria should not be proactive to ban all flights from countries infested by Covid-19, including USA, Britain, Italy, among others.

Speaking further, he said the party NWC members should concern itself with how it will support the government in dealing with the challenges coming on the heels of the falling oil prices, which he said may affect the capacity of the government to deliver on its promises to Nigerians.

Lamenting the agony that the avoidable crisis has caused the party, the national chairman said he was humbled by the advice of the Court of Appeal, which apart from proclaiming that his suspension should be vacated, cautioned Nigerian political parties to always manage and resolve their crisis internally rather than coming to court to settle such issues.

To this end, he called on the NWC members to consider the pressure it places on President Muhammadu Buhari, to intervene in matters that should rather be settled internally by the APC members, at the time he should be focusing on governance issues.

Addressing the NWC members earlier before commencement of the meeting, the chairman of the party had promised to amend his ways to accommodate other interests and perspective, though he pointed out that his styles are different from other people’s style.

“Party politics is about contestations. I am not the best chairman in the world and I don’t claim to be so. You can fault my style but you cannot fault my sincerity. My style is my style but I’ve learnt to reconcile my style with the style of others.

“The NWC is not divided. None of us seated here want to destroy our party”, he said while he charged members to put the interest of the party first and then the larger interest of Nigeria.

At the meeting were other members of NWC which include Senator Abiola Ajimobi but Arch. Waziri Bulama was conspicuously absent.