By Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja
Non-National Working Committee (nNWC) members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have urged the leadership of the party to constitute the Board of Trustees (BoT) or the National Elders Council (NEC) to save the party from collapse.
The forum, which just elected its leadership, also called for a speedy filling of vacant positions in the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to guarantee equity and fairness.
The newly elected chairman of the forum, Nelson Alapa, who addressed reporters at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, said the nNWC called the meeting to underscore the need for APC leadership to meet what he called the threats to the party.
Alapa, who read the forum’s communiqué, said there were ominous signs from the current situation, which are the fallouts of the hijack of the NEC by the National Working Committee (NWC), a situation he said was diminishing the founding values of the party.
“We use this time to call on all the key stakeholders to ensure that Board of Trustees/National Elders Council, as the case maybe, is constituted within a reasonable time frame, majorly to enhance our party status and operations.
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“All vacant positions in the party should be filled appropriately to guarantee equity and fairness. Such vacant positions include the following: Departmental Directors, National Secretary, National Auditor, Deputy National Chairman South and National Vice Chairman Northwest.
“Fundamental basis of this communiqué is to create appropriate awareness necessary in the minds and souls of the founding fathers and leaders of this great party on the urgent and critical need to salvage the party from possible imminent fractures/cracks, if things are left in the present ways the party is being currently run/managed by the incumbent leadership.
“As provided in the 2014 APC Constitution, as amended, Article 11 (Party Organs) National Executive Committee (NEC) members, into which this forum falls, is the third highest organ after the National Convention and Board of Trustees and takes precedent before the National Working Committee (NWC).
“It is disheartening that National Working Committee has usurped completely the powers of the National Executive Committee (NEC), the negative effects of which are currently hitting back to all levels of the party, signaling serious dangers to the stability, coherence, unity, loyalty, commitment and preparedness for continuity in governance,” he said.
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