The camp of the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni who is the chairman of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) bounced back on Tuesday as the Secretary, Senator James John Akpanudoedehe, resumed at the party national secretariat.
This is just as the activities for the national convention of the party slated for March 26 commenced with the sale of forms to aspirants.
One of the chairmanship aspirants, Saliu Mustapha, who was the deputy national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), picked up the form after he paid the stipulated N20m.
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The ruling party had been enmeshed in a leadership crisis over the purported directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Buni, who has been piloting the affairs of the party since June 2020 when the Adams Oshiomhole- led National Working Committee (NWC) was sacked.
Daily Trust reports that there was also a court order purportedly secured by the Buni-camp to frustrate the national convention, which was the immediate cause of the altercation throughout last week.
The ruling party has been working hard to vacate the order in court.
Around 11:30am Tuesday, Akpanudoedehe resumed at the APC secretariat with what could be called ‘pomp and pageantry’.
According to Daily Trust, after moving around the secretariat, he went to his office and shortly thereafter issued a statement saying the party had engaged a team of senior lawyers to address a purported court order halting the convention.
He said the APC was crisis-free, strong and remained united in giving the country the transformative leadership and good governance it promised during campaigns.
He said, “The CECPC is intact and functional as originally constituted. That delivering a seamlessly successful national convention for the APC on March 26, 2022, is a top priority for the CECPC.
“We hereby call on the judiciary to give the matter the needed and expedient attention in our bid to vacate the purported Court order and allow for the conduct of a transparent and rancor-free national convention deserving of our great party, APC.” (DailyTrust)
