Some aggrieved members of the National Working Committee (NWC), of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday, accused the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu of running a dictatorial regime at the party’s headquarters.
The leaders in a joint statement by Salihu Moh. Lukman and Isaacs Kekemeke, the North West Vice and South West Vice Chairmen respectively “APC And The Need For Vigilance: Urgent Call For Intervention”, said the APC Chairman is running as his private Estate.
According to the officers, Adamu’s style of leadership is inconsistent which is inconsistent with the party’s constitution is frustrating.
The complained about the serial postponement of the scheduled meeting of the NWC which they described as a deliberate attempt to foist a fait accompli on the NWC on fundamental issues that affect the party as a whole.
According to them, the National Chairman was in the tradition of taking decisions unilaterally without consultations of other NWC members.
They stressed that he was in the habit of invoking the name of the leader, of the party President Muhammadu Buhari, when it suits him to blackmail NWC members into accepting his decisions.
They explained that every effort to get the Chairman to respect the authority of the NWC, as elected by the March 26, 2022 APC National Convention has fallen on deaf ears adding that it has proved very difficult, if not impossible.
They said the NEC donated its powers to NWC and not to the National Chairman or any individual and therefore called on all members of the NWC to rise to the challenging situations by joining hands with them to save the party.
They explained that every hand must be on the deck to return the party to its founding mission of moving Nigeria forward based on honest, fair, just and selfless commitment to party building.
“We are compelled to make this statement following serial postponement of the scheduled within 48 hours
“We are convinced beyond doubt that this is a deliberate attempt to foist a fait accompli on the NWC on fundamental issues that affect our great party.
“Within just two months in the lifespan of the new leadership of our great party, APC, led by His Excellency, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, the NWC, organ of the party vested with the power of managing the day-to-day affairs, including implemmenting decisions of the National Executive Committee (NEC), as provided in Article 13.4 of the APC Constitution, has been rendered redundant.
“The National Chairman takes decisions unilaterally. When it suits him, he invokes the name of our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari to blackmail NWC members into accepting his decisions.
“Every effort to get the Chairman to respect the authority of the NWC as elected by the March 26, 2022 APC National Convention is proving very difficult, if not impossible. Note that NEC’s donation of its powers was to NWC and not to the National Chairman or any individual.
“We therefore have no option but to make this public appeal to all APC leaders to intervene please urgently to call our National Chairman, His Excellency, Abdullahi Adamu to order, immediately.” The statement reads.
The National Chairman must be properly reminded to recognise that the business of managing the day-to-day affairs of the party is the responsibility of the NWC as provided in provisions of the APC Constitution.
“He is free to consult any party leader(s). Such consultations will not represent decisions of the NWC or any organ of the party unless and until it is adopted by a properly constituted meeting of the NWC or organ in question according to the letters and spirit of the APC constitution.
“As a party, we have suffered enough judicial embarrassments arising from clearly avoidable leadership breach of our party’s constitution and spelt out rules.
The statement added that they have served notice to the APC Chairman through the party leaders.
“As members of the NWC who have the mandate of our members, we hereby serve notice to His Excellency, Abdullahi Adamu, and through him to all APC leaders that henceforth, any decision taken by the National Chairman or any other party functionary, which require the approval of the NWC as enshrined in the APC constitution, will be considered as illegitimate and an infringement on the jurisdictional scope of the NWC, unless otherwise confirmed as validly approved decisions of the NWC or any other legitimate organ of the party.
“No NWC member is elected at the March 26, 2022 National Convention to warm seats or offices in the National Secretariat.
We therefore call on all our colleagues in the NWC to rise to these challenging situations by joining hands with us to save our great party and return it to its founding mission of moving Nigeria forward based on honest, fair, just and selfless commitment to party building. God bless our party”. The statement further added.
