By Kemi Kasumu
The crisis rocking the Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) took a new dimension as protesters matched on the National Secretariat of the party, demanding for immediate dissolution of its National Working Committee (NWC).
Our Abuja correspondent said the protesters, under the aegies of Concerned All Progressives Congress Members, demonstrated, calling for the dissolution of the present National Working Committee of the party and insisting that exactly must be done.
Some of the protesters.
They gave President Muhammadu Buhari and National Executive Council (NEC) of the party 72 hours to convey an emergency meeting and dissolve the present NWC.
Leader of the group, Opokwu Ogenyi, said the present NWC had caused more harm and bastardised the party and that there was the need to salvage it from going into extinction.
APC is merely five years in power and little above sux years old as a political party. Riding on the shoulders of General Muhammadu Buhari, it democratically ceased power from Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the February 2015 general elections and after it had spent 16 years in government.
As a result of its inability, as it has shown so far, to manage electoral successes, many observers who joined in the Change Campaign of APC between 2014 and 2015 are already asking for the party’s unreserved apology not only to Nigerians but also to the PDP and former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
But the party’s members and youths who demonstrated Monday said never, instead for tiger to be treasurer for lion, they will both go their different ways.
Opokwu said, “This present National Working Committee has caused us to lose seven states to the opposition. APC had 24 states’ governors before the present NWC, today we have 18 governors. Just yesterday, the deputy governor of Ondo State left us and joined opposition Peoples Democratic Party.”
Opokwu berated the leadership crisis that has engulfed the ruling party leading to four individuals laying claim to the Acting National Chairman position.
The group maintained that any attempt to keep the NWC further would destroy and disintegrate the party.
The protesters vowed to extend the protest to other states if the highest decision making body refused to convey the meeting.
