Except for any unforeseen circumstance, the Congress of all progressives (APC) seems to organize the meeting of its highest decision -making body, the National Executive Committee (NEC) after it postponed a couple of times in 2024.
The delay in the call of the meeting has generated a lot of concern among some first class at APC, including a former president of the Vice President of the Northwest, Mallam Salihu Lukman and a former governor of the state of Kaduna, Nasir El-Rufai.
The National Secretary of the Congress of all progressives (APC), Dr. Surjudeen Ajibola Basiru, in an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, confirmed that the party will hold the NEC meeting “possibly this February”.
NEC and Caucus meetings, previously scheduled for September 11 and 12, 2024, respectively, in the National Secretariat of APC, in Abuja, were canceled by the party.
Consequently, the National Secretary of Advertising of APC, Mr. Felix Morka, had promised that a new date would later be announced.
In a two -paragraph statement, Mr. Morka declared that the new dates for meetings will be communicated in due time.
The statement said: “The members of the National Caucus and the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Congress of all the progressives (APC) are informed by this, the meetings of the National Committee of Caucus and the National Executive Committee scheduled to hold 11 and September 12, 2024, respectively, have been postponed.
“In due time new dates will be communicated for meetings.”
In a national conference aimed at facion how to deepen democracy in the country, El-Rufai, who is among the founding leaders of the APC, as well as the former Minister of the Territory of the Federal Capital (FCT), said the various Organs at the party has not been holding meetings.
“I am the founding member of the APC. But, frankly, I no longer recognize the APC. No party organ has gathered in two years, without caucus, without nec, nothing. I don't even know if it's a single man show. It is a zero show of men, ”he said.
Similarly, Mallam Lukman, the former general director of the Forum of Progressives Governments, had expressed concern due to the delay in which the party maintained its NEC to address a series of issues such as the highest decision -making body of the APC.
However, speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in Osoagbo, the capital of the state of OSun, the National Secretary of APC, Dr. Basiru said that the necessary arrangements are ongoing to call the meeting possibly this month.
“We are in the process of convening a meeting of NEC possibly this February,” Nigerian Tribune told him when he was asked what was delaying the meeting of the highest decision -making body of the APC.
Dr. Basiru also took the opportunity to clarify other problems related to the ruling party, including the speculated plan by the opposition parties to associate with the APC before the general elections of 2027 in the country.
The legal professional said that the party is not losing the dream for any plan and collaboration that the opposition parties are contemplating the next general elections, since the APC is still focused on its established agenda.
He expressed doubts about the possibility of a fusion between opposition parties due to what he perceived as the excessive political ambitions of those who described as power traffickers in his range.
The two -time commissioner in the state of Osun also accused the opposition of resorting to abuse and insult instead of playing the genuine role of the opposition under the civil government, citing what he obtained between the deceased unity party of Nigeria (UPN) and The then National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in the Second Republic.
“We are not afraid of anything. APC has never complained with anyone. You will realize that it is the opposition parties that are going out to say that it is the APC that does not allow them to have a stable party.
“We are not afraid of anyone and let me tell you this, the so -called oppositions are not even playing the role of oppositions beyond issuing abuse.
“When Chief Obafemi Awolowo was in opposition to Shehu Shagari, every time Shagari took out a policy, Chief Awolowo would come out with an alternative policy and show people the way he would have done so. The opposition is not just about abusing or slandering social networks.
“The question is: for the economic policies of like this Waju Bola Tinubu, what are the alternatives that the opposition has led beyond planning only for the 2027 elections?
“If 2027 arrives, what do you want to campaign and what alternatives are you giving to people? They have no alternative.
“The so -called opposition are only power traffickers. The only work they have is that they want to access the government's power for personal aggrandizement without any program or policies for the Nigerian people. I am not a fortune teller, but they will not be able to merge because all the main opposition figures are driven by personal ambitions.
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