The All Progressives Congress said that the purported suspension of its North-East National Vice Chairman, Mustapha Salihu, was a nullity.
Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC newly-appointed National Publicity Secretary, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
He said: “Our attention has been drawn to the purported suspension of the APC National Vice Chairman (North-East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu by the North-East zonal office.
“We state categorically that the purported suspension is a nullity as the North-East zonal office does not have such powers to suspend a national officer.
“According to the party’s Constitution, such powers reside with the National Executive Committee.”
Issa-Onilu added that whatever issues there might be, the party structure and Constitution had provided ample avenues for redress and dispute resolution.
He maintained that if the North-East zonal office was unable to achieve a resolution, the party’s National Working Committee could and would wade into the matter to achieve amicable settlement.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Secretary of the APC North-East Zone, Abubakar Ajiya, on Saturday, announced the suspension of Salihu.
Ajiya announced the suspension in a letter addressed to Salihu and entitled: ‘Re: Letter of Vote of No Confidence, saying that the suspension was in line with the party’s Constitution.
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