After war, sacked APC NWC changes mind from going to court

Members of the sacked National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have reportedly changed their minds as they say they will no longer be challenging in court, decisions of National Excecutive Council (NEC) meeting summoned by then Acting National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Giadom, and attended by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The DEFENDER reports that these sacked officers had ignored the intervention by President Buhari, which led to his backing for Giadom leadership and subsequent NEC that he summoned threatening that they would be on their way to court.

Their threat was believed in several quarters to be on the advice of their camp leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and his representative, Adams Oshiomhole.

But the Chairman of Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) and Governor of Kebbi State, Senator Atiku Bagudu, in Friday dismissed their threat of legal action during a visit to the Villa on Friday along with Your State Governor Mai Mala Buni, who is Chairman Caretaker Committee meeting set up at the end if the NEC meeting.

We also reported earlier that the President and governors of the party are decisive about the decisions they jointly took at the NEC meeting and that they were ready to wield the big stick against anybody that made attempt to further worsen the crisis of the APC.

Perhaps seeing the seriousness in the face if the President and governors they had earlier tagged in a reoort as ‘pro-Giadom governors in the Villa’, the former NWC members have jettisoned their threat of legalaction.

Corroborating our findings, a media report also said that they have now resolved to work for the rebuilding of the party, according to report credited to the immediate past National Secretary of the party, Mallam Waziri Bulama.

According to the report, Bulama who had vehemently stood behind Oshiomhole camo in refusing the decision if court installing Victor Giadom and accepting invitation to attend the NEC summoned by him, has now come to toe the same path with the former Acting National Chairman when he agreed that failure of all organs of the party to function effectively affected the APC.

In early reports published in The DEFENDER, failure of Adams Oshiomhole to constitute the Board of Trustees (BoT) and call for quarterly National Excecutive Council (NEC) had been the reason the party did not move forward, hence the genesis of the APC crisis and for which the governors who rooted for his removal did.

It is general believe as obvious that Oshiomhole blocked those organs except the NEC he allegedly personalised from functioning to pave the way for smooth emergence of his mentor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, ahead of 2023 presidential election. There were others, however according to our findings, who had their eyes in 2023 and who were involved in the fueling of the crisis but Oshiomhole doing his own shooting perceived enemies, who returned out to be Buhari’s loyalists only across the country, made his own case worse.

The sacked NWC members, according to Bulama, are now relaxed as the former secretary was said to be optimistic that the APC would not break up despite the crisis at hand.

Also on Friday, the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Senator, Atiku Bagudu, dismissed the threat of court action by members of the dissolved NWC.

The chairman of the Caretaker/Convention committee of the party, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State, is understood to have commenced efforts to reach out to stakeholders of the party to bury their hatchets and rally round his committee to rebuild the party.

Reviewing the events of the last few days including the NWC dissolution and reactions of some party members, Bulama in a media chat in Abuja said the sacked NWC has already accepted the Thursday decisions of the National Executive Committee, would not go to court and would defer to Buhari.