The crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC) has taken another turn as President Buhari has been accused of supporting “illegality” by members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) national working committee (NWC).
President Buhari who spoke through his spokesperson Garba Shehu on Wednesday, June 24, said he will attend the NEC meeting because “the law is on the side of Victor Giadom as Acting National Chairman.”
Reacting to this, Hillard Eta, vice-chairman of the APC (south-south) and Waziri Bulama, the acting national secretary said an emergency NWC meeting was held after Buhari declared support for Giadom.
The statement partly read “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.”