The Peoples Democratic Party in Kano State has rejected in totality the purported dissolution of the state executive committee by the National Working Committee of the party.
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The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has agreed to adopt direct primaries to conduct elections that will produce Presidential, Senate, House of Representatives, Governorship and State House of Assembly’s candidates ahead of the 2019 general elections, Daily Trust is reporting.
The court granted the application after hearing the submission of Abdulwahab Bamidele, counsel to Isola Balogun-Fulani (Chairman of Kwara State APC), Chief Christopher Tunji Ayeni (Secretary, Kwara State APC), who are claimants/applicants in the suit number KWS /292/218, filed before the court of Justice T. S. Umar.
The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has approved the appointment of Yekini Nabena as the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party.
The position of the party was contained in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Sulyma Buhari.
This is according to a resolution signed by the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and its National Secretary, Mai Mala Buni on Monday in Abuja after the NWC meeting.
“When the history of this moment is written, those looking back on this decision will say that it was an inevitable natural consequence of party evolution,” he said.
According to a statement signed by the party’s Chairman and Secretary in the state, Chief Ademola Ishola and Elder Femi Awe, they described the said congress as illegal.
Governor Abubakar Badaru of Jigawa who is the Chairman of the committee, stated this at the end of a meeting with the governors on Wednesday night.
The Chairman of the Media Subcommittee for the National Convention Planning Committee, Governor Abiola Ajimobi, stated this on Thursday in Abuja.
Lawal told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that he submitted his resignation letter to the National Working Committee of the party on Tuesday.
The Assistant Publicity Secretary of the party, Abiodun Salami, issued the threat in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State and chieftain of the APC, stated this after a meeting of the stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja.
In the alternative, the chapter told him to convoke a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee within seven days so as to constitute a disciplinary committee to probe the matter.
Oke Ikoro, the Chairman of the forum, made the plea on Wednesday in Abuja when a delegation of the forum visited the NWC.
The coalition gave the advice on Thursday in Abuja during its peace rally at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja.
The plaintiff, Ademorin Kuye, led some other members of the party to file the suit after the party extended the tenure of NWC by one year.
This came on the heels of assurances by the Prince Uche Secondus-led National Working Committee of the party to ensure a level playing ground for all aspirants in all processes leading to the primaries for the emergence of the governorship candidate.
National Organising Secretary of the party, Col. Austin Akobundu (retd), made the pledge while receiving Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms from two aspirants to the governorship seat at the party’s National Secretariat, Abuja, on Friday.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party called on security agencies in the state conduct full investigation into the incident.