The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has reacted to claims by some of its governors that the National Executive Council, NEC, lacks the powers to extend the tenure of its National Chairman.
The party’s NEC, had in their meeting earlier in the week, extended the tenure of the John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee, NWC by one year.http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/27/breaking-apc-extends-oyeguns-tenure/
Some members of the party had denounced the decision to extend the tenure of the APC NEC and party executives at all levels.
Specifically, the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, had while speaking to reporters in Abuja, on Tuesday, said, “What has been done is a mere expression of interest.
“The power of the convention to extend tenure is exercised only by way of constitution amendment.
“The power of the NEC of our party cannot go beyond doing so by way of constitution amendment.”
Yari added that “Article 30 of the APC Constitution states: ‘This constitution and the schedules hereto, can be amended only by the National Convention of the party.”
Speaking in an interview with Punch, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, said that the party did not prevent individual members from expressing personal opinions on any issue. . He said, “With due respect, the governor in question did not canvass his position during the NEC meeting.
“The only governor that said something close to that was Governor Rochas Okorocha who eventually saw things differently after his colleague, the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu SAN, a senior lawyer in his own rights, explained issues to him.
“As a party, our members have a right to express their personal opinions on issues but like in every democracy, the minority will have their say but the majority will always have their way.”
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