The All Progressives Congress (APC) has fixed another National Executive Council (NEC) meeting for this month to fix the controversies arising from the one-year tenure extension granted the John Oyegun-led National Working Committee (NWC).


Mr Bolaji Abdullahi, national spokesperson of the party and a beneficiary of the extension, confirmed the coming meeting to Saturday Tribune.

The date for the meeting is for President Muhammadu Buhari to fix. As of press time, he had not communicated a definite date to the party leadership.

A party source said the exact date would be dependent on the president’s convenience.

The controversial extension granted Oyegun and his NWC team at Tuesday’s NEC meeting, is generating ripples among party stakeholders who wanted a new national leadership, particularly the South-West wing of the party.

Lagos, Osun and Oyo governors, allies of the national leader of the party, Senator Bola Tinubu were not present at the last NEC meeting.

Senate President, Bukola Saraki was also absent.

He claimed a tight schedule for his absence.

Abdullahi, also confirmed that the coming NEC meeting would be used to fill the lacuna in the extension granted the embattled NWC.

The amendment is expected to read what the NWC members would enjoy from May when their tenure officially ends, and that it is not an extension but acting appointments.

Whoever doesn’t fancy staying longer than May, among them, would be at personal liberty to leave, a party source told Saturday Tribune.

A couple of NWC members had complained of poor funding of the party.

The report of the Nasir el-Rufai panel on restructuring is also on the card for consideration during the meeting.

Governors elected on the platform of the party had joined colleagues in opposition, to agree to state police.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, a statutory NEC member of the party, had also spoken on the state police push.

His public stance is taken to be President Buhari’s private endorsement.

The National Assembly and state Houses of Assembly are in the process of rounding off on the proposed amendment to the 1999 constitution (as amended) to reflect constitutional restructuring of the polity.

Amendments made to the party’s constitution which Oyegun NWC had approved, will also be considered at the coming NEC meeting, Abdullahi confirmed.

Nearly all members of the party’s NEC had received electronic copies of the revised constitution for study, ahead of the meeting, Saturday Tribune was told.

Highlights of the revised constitution include; compulsory membership due’s payment with attendant sanctions for defaulters, whittling of governors influence in picking candidates for local government elections, granting of waiver to new members to seek elective positions, strengthening of the office of the chairman of the party, general party discipline, internal democracy, among others.

The party’s spokesperson also confirmed the fixing of dates for governorship primary elections in Ekiti and Osun States.

While the party’s candidate will emerge for Ekiti governorship election on May 5, Osun will have a go at it on July 7.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fixed July 14 for Ekiti governorship election and September 22 for the Osun poll.

With the rocky relations between Tinubu and Oyegun, the peace and reconciliation agenda of the party, may have run into a hitch, with Oyegun staying beyond May 2018, a party source has disclosed.

Tinubu signed on leadership change at the top echelon of the party and had publicly engaged the national chairman in war-of-words.

Saturday Tribune gathered that while the party leadership has encouraged those on its trouble-shooting expedition to troubled state chapters, to make their reports available to Tinubu’s peace committee, the move is believed to be pacifist, because the party national leadership, according to senior sources, would end up implementing the peace recommendations.

Despite being a presidential assignment, Saturday Tribune’s checks showed that Buhari would still require the party leadership in Abuja to relate with the state chapters, to implement the peace deal.

A source close to Tinubu disclosed that “the whole thing (peace assignment) now appears like a mockery.

Newbiee:
The extension has come to stay.
Buhari till 2023

ambayomide11:
they can extend the tenure in their party but they can not extend the tenure of Buhari till 2023

AntiWailer:
Buhari is not a leader.

U dnt approve extension when grievances were not yet addresssed.

It is just sad all alternatives are filled with armed robbers too.

swagagolic01:


Buhari has never been a ĺeader, he would've sacrificed the chairman, tinubu is stronger than those stupid governors giving hm hope ...

It's a good thing for Nigerians tho, let them destroy themselves

DIKEnaWAR:
Why does Tinubu love power so much that it has blinded him to reason? The man is mad and can't think again.

They would only ratify the extension at the NEC, further humiliating Tinubu and his cronies.

To remove Oyegun will open a new chapter in the fight for the soul of APC. It would finally bring Tinubu I n collision with Buhari. Buhari doesn't want to fight Tinubu yet till when he gets a 2nd term. That's why he made sure Oyegun would be there till after elections before he would chase him and Tinubu away from the party. They gave Tinubu the role of reconciliation to keep him busy and make him feel important because it has been seen that the man has a large ego and wants everyone to kow tow to him. APC is not the defunct ACN.


This is the end for the Jagaban. Any party he moves to today will not be comfortable. The Osun and Lagos governors are following him grudgingly. Oyo is only following him because Buhari has refused to let him in because of Adebayo Shit(tu).

Bye to Jagajaga. .. bye bye to Jagaban...

fergie001:

U Sabi politics,honestly

Lanre4uonly:
Ok. Let's wait and see how it will unfold. Besides, this might be the beginning of the end of the APC if care is not taken.

chuksjuve:
Foolishness is when you expect a party that has been / is crises ridden, always fighting amongst themselves and have not held one single national convention for its party since inception to fix a crises prone country like Nigeria ..I don't get it

Much more foolishness is to support this same party come 2019 to fix Nigeria ..This one pass me .

I'm sorry to say Nigerians have been hypnotized and the jazz is real..

I'm out!!!

swagagolic01:


Buhari has never been a ĺeader, he would've sacrificed the chairman, tinubu is stronger than those stupid governors giving hm hope ...

It's a good thing for Nigerians tho, let them destroy themselves

DIKEnaWAR:
Why does Tinubu love power so much that it has blinded him to reason? The man is mad and can't think again.

They would only ratify the extension at the NEC, further humiliating Tinubu and his cronies.

To remove Oyegun will open a new chapter in the fight for the soul of APC. It would finally bring Tinubu I n collision with Buhari. Buhari doesn't want to fight Tinubu yet till when he gets a 2nd term. That's why he made sure Oyegun would be there till after elections before he would chase him and Tinubu away from the party. They gave Tinubu the role of reconciliation to keep him busy and make him feel important because it has been seen that the man has a large ego and wants everyone to kow tow to him. APC is not the defunct ACN.


This is the end for the Jagaban. Any party he moves to today will not be comfortable. The Osun and Lagos governors are following him grudgingly. Oyo is only following him because Buhari has refused to let him in because of Adebayo Shit(tu).

Bye to Jagajaga. .. bye bye to Jagaban...