John Oyegun, chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), says the recommendations of the panel set up to
examine the tenure elongation of the national working committee (NWC) will “lay
to rest the ghost that has been hovering over the leadership of APC”.
He said this while receiving the
report of the committee from Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau state, in Abuja
on Friday.
The committee was saddled with
the responsibility of examining the demands of President Muhammadu Buhari that
the tenure extension of the party executives at states and federal levels be
cancelled.
The president had explained that
the extension was causing acrimony within the party, with some members not
comfortable with the matter, dragging the party to court.
Earlier, Lalong urged the party
leadership to painstakingly study the recommendations of the panel.
He said if the recommendations were
accepted and implemented, the leadership logjam in the party would “become a
thing of the past’’.
“The task appeared not easy when
it was given to us, but with God on our side and the very wide consultations we
made, we accomplished it,” he said.
“This report has solved most of
the problems that we were thinking was within the APC, that is to tell you that
there is democracy in the party.”
He said in carrying out the
assignment, the committee was guided by the party´s constitution and the 1999
constitution of the country.
“The committee also looked at the
minutes of the party´s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of February
27 where the decision to extend the Odigie-Oyegun-led NWC and other party
executives by one year starting from June was taken,” he said.
“We also looked at the passion
and the commitment of the President towards keeping the party as one and at the
end of the day, we made far-reaching recommendations.
“We noticed that there were
different interests, which is quite usual when you have a party like this, that
is progressive.”
He added that the interests
identified were genuine and that the committee was able “to marry” all
interests for the party to move forward.
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