Nabena To Warring Groups, APC Not A Personal Property

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*Seek Intervention of President Buhari, National Assembly
Leadership, Party Caucus

With the worsening crisis that has engulfed the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Yekini Nabena, the Party’s Deputy National
Publicity Secretary has called on warring groups to consider the Party’s
general interest as opposed to the personal political interests being pursued
by some.

Nabena spoke to newsmen in Abuja.

The APC Chieftain said: “Let no one think he or she has
a greater stake or interest in the APC. At our different levels we have toiled
and made contributions towards the sustainance and growth of the governing APC
that many party men and women have used as a political platform for election
and appointment. The APC is nobody’s personal property.

“I call on President Muhammadu Buhari as the leader of
the party, the National Assembly leadership and well-meaning members of the
caucus to urgently wade into the crisis and restore order to the party. We are
progressives and our leaders have a duty to provide counsel and leadership so
that we dont go the way of the failed Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“The APC has serious business to deal with
particularly, contestations in some state chapters, rancorous primaries,
preparation for governorship elections in Ondo and Edo States and
troubleshooting the circumstances surrounding our electoral and legal losses,
particularly in Zamfara, Rivers, Adamawa and Bayelsa states.

“2023 is not as far as we assume. As the president
noted during our last NEC meeting it would be shameful if APC collapsed after
his tenure and history would not forgive anyone who tried to aid the collapse
the party. The time to act is now.”

The leadership crisis has resulted in the factionalisation
of the Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) with a group convening an
emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for Tuesday
March 17 and the other group declaring the meeting illegal. In the meantime,
the Party’s National Secretariat has been sealed with a security cordone in
place following a high court ruling over the purported suspension of the APC
National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.