By Kola Adeyemi
Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said Yobe State governor, Mai Mala Buni, should be allowed to conduct the national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC) slated for March 26.
Buhari made the call in a letter dated March 16 and addressed to Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State who also double as the Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF).
“First, the issue of the leadership of the Caretaker Extra Ordinary Convention Committee (CECC), should immediately return to status quo ante.
“Second, all members of the governors’ forum and their followers should desist from any behaviour or utterance that will likely lead to disunity in the ranks of the party, and ultimately jeopardise the transition to the convention.
“Third, the Mai Mala Buni-led CECC should, accordingly, be allowed to proceed with all necessary preparations to hold the convention as planned-unfailingly, on 26th March, 2022,” Buhari said in the letter.
He said that his call for the status quo to remain was because the APC “has demonstrated its inability to proceed with the issue of effecting change in the leadership of its Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Committee (CECC).”
The President also stated that there was need for the party to avoid litigation, owing to the fact that the party has aggrieved members who have threatened to go to court.
“It has come to my attention that, because of recent events, the APC is faced with a multiplicity of court cases pending against it in various courts across the country.
“As a result of this, the party faces the possibility and prospect of the invalidation of all its activities and actions by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“No doubt, these controversies and uncertainties, as enumerated above, pose a real threat to the party; and may lead to a possible nonrecognition of its activities, elections and the probable invalidation of all its other actions by INEC.
“This may ultimately even lead [to] its implosion and non-existence,” Buhari said in the letter. (vitalnews)
