The virtual National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has dissolved all the Wards, Local Government Areas, States, zonal and national executive structure of the party.
The meeting, scheduled in late November to review its position and deliberate on its next line of action as it concerns its national leadership and attended by President Muhammadu Buhari also approved the extension of the tenure of the Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) for another six months.
The National Chairman of the party’s Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee and governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, has led other members of the party’s NEC, including President Muhammadu Buhari, into the meeting.
The Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives are in attendance, physically.
Addressing journalists at the end of the emergency meeting, Governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Hope Uzodinma (Imo) and Secretary of the CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, the party condemned the call by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the impeachment of President Buhari over the deteriorating insecurity in the country.
The meeting was held at the Executive Council Chambers of the State House virtually while some party leaders were physically present.
But the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) congratulated Nigerians, saying that “their tormentor for five years, the All Progressives Congress (APC), has finally dissolves out of our political firmament.”
in a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said “the APC, being overburdened by the weight of failure, humongous corruption as well as the plagues of economic recession, violence, killings and hardship it has brought to our people, forcefully exited itself from the nation’s political firmament by dissolving all its national, zonal and state structures.
“With this exit, December 8, 2020 has gone into the history of our nation as liberation day, especially given the spontaneous jubilation by Nigerians over this step towards political oblivion by a political party that has brought so much pain on them.
“Now that the APC has become defunct, the PDP invites the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to officially deregister the APC and recall its certificate of registration, given that it no longer has operational structures as required by law.
“In the same vein, INEC should immediately declare the seat of all lawmakers elected on the platform of APC at the federal and state levels as vacant and commence the process of bye-election to fill the seats, as required by law.
“Furthermore, government agencies, civil society organizations as well as the international community should immediately gazette the APC as a defunct political organization in our country.
“Nevertheless, the PDP invites all leaders of the fizzled APC to get ready to answer Nigerians for their misdeeds, and not to think they can get away with their atrocities by forming or joining another political party.”