The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of illegality for joining the Victor Giadom led faction of the party.
President Buhari on June 24 threw his weight behind Giadom’s saying he is the bonafide acting national chairman of the party and called on all APC members to attend the national executive council meeting Giadom convened for Thursday, June 25, 2020.
Reacting to this, Hillard Eta, vice-chairman of the APC (south-south) and Waziri Bulama, acting national secretary said an emergency NWC meeting was held after Buhari declared support for Giadom.
In a statement released after the 4 hours meeting, the NWC members stated that they won’t be “embracing illegalities and turning a blind eye to the infractions on the constitution of the party”.
They added that said they would not attend the NEC meeting as they believe that President Buhari was ”offered the wrong advice or blackmailed into lending his weighty office to the illegality of the National Executive Committee meeting convened by Giadom.”
The statement read in part;
“We wish to unequivocally state that members of the National Working Committee (NWC) believe that the President was offered wrong advice or blackmailed into lending his weighty office to the illegality of the National Executive Committee meeting purportedly convened by one Victor Giadom on 25th June, 2020.
“We hereby respectfully implore Mr. President to kindly avail himself with facts of the matter regarding the impasse presently experienced by the party so as to guide him in his assessment of the matter because we are sure that the President, if properly advised, would come to the conclusion that the meeting convened by Chief Victor Giadom bothers on illegality and criminality.
“The National Working Committee (NWC) regrets to turn down the invitation to the illegal and unconstitutional National Executive Committee (NEC) convened by Chief Victor Giadom. We believe that attending such a meeting will amount to embracing illegalities and turning a blind eye to the infractions on the Constitution of our great Party.”
