Protesters numbering hundreds on Monday afternoon grounded activities at the secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), demanding immediate dissolution of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) among others.
This is just as President Muhammadu Buhari and All Progressive Congress (APC) governors are right now meeting in the presidential villa, Abuja, in an apparent bid to contain the leadership crisis threatening to tear the party apart.
At the meeting are the Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum and Governor of Kebbi state, Atiku Bagudu; Chairman of Northern Governors Forum and Governor of Plateau state, Simon Lalong and Governor of Jigawa state, Abubakar Badaru.
The meeting is coming closely after Sunday’s meeting with Senate President Ahmed Lawan, who had hinted that the president would intervene in the matter in a bid to resolve the crisis within the next few days.
At the party’s headquarters, protesters bearing posters with various inscription like ‘the current NWC has destroyed our party‘, ‘The NWC has divided the party and highly uncoordinated, we want it dissolved’ ‘NWC must go’, ‘the current NWC is our biggest problem’,’ ‘NWC is a disgrace, we have lost confidence in it’ among others, they had barricaded the entrance to the secretariat and blocked the road, slowing vehicular movement.
Speaking to newsmen during the peaceful protests, the convener of the group, Concerned APC Member, Okpokwu Ogenyi, threatened to take the protest to other parts of the country should the NWC members fail to leave the party, tagging the NWC monumental failure.
