HeadlineAPC Youth Group Sacks Buni, Names Audu National Chairman

APC Youth Group Sacks Buni, Names Audu National Chairman

November 30, (THEWILL) – Aggrieved youth members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday inaugurated a new caretaker committee to conduct the party’s National Convention in February 2022.

The aggrieved party members, under the aegis of the Progressive Youth Movement (PYM), sacked Mai Mala Buni as chairman of the party’s Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), and immediately named Mustapha Audu as his replacement.

The new factional chairman, Mustapha Audu, has since given the party’s national leadership until January 3, 2022, to vacate the national secretariat.

He further disclosed that they will not only write to the Buni-led committee next week to hand over to them and vacate the national secretariat but will also write an audit firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers, to thoroughly look into the accounts of the ruling party since the Caretaker Committee took over last year.

Announcing the sack of the Buni-led caretaker committee, Audu said: “This is the new APC Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee. It is clear that there are issues in our great party and we all know that there is a constitutional lacuna we are facing and the opposition is not happy with what is going on.

“The composition of the sacked APC was in clear violation of the party and Nigeria constitution but we have resolved that constitution lacuna and we ate no longer unprepared for the 2023 general elections. To show you the power of young people, we met just a week ago in Kaduna and fixed our Convention for February 2022 only for the governors to Assemble in Abuja 24 hours after.

“They went to the President claiming that he has agreed on the same February. We met with Mr President in January and he told us to go all out and change the narrative.

“There is enough problem existing already and the majority of it came from the governors. In order to fix the problems as youths, we have to stand up bravely and boldly to face the challenges. We are going in to reconcile the APC hand in hand with party leaders and we are not going to chastise anybody.

“Today is the day that the story of ‘youths are leaders of tomorrow’ ended. Today, we are leaders of here and now and we will change Nigeria. We have been recognised by Mr President and by all the members of the party. I can tell you that the leaders are currently scrambling and having meetings on how to align with us.

“This caretaker committee has sacked the Buni-led caretaker committee and stands devolved, disbanded and no longer represents the APC members. As the new committee, we will take up the monumental task of reconciliation,” he said.

On why they did not zone the presidential ticket, he said; “we recognize zoning and our task is for the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. We don’t want to go outside of our mandate. We are worried that those issues that occurred before where Committees were given a mandate, go out of the mandate given to them. We want to show that we know how to follow the rules and deliver on our responsibility perfectly.

Asked where they will operate from after dissolving the Buni-led committee, he said: “We will be writing formally to the Buni-led Caretaker Committee next week to tell them to vacate the office for us to occupy.

“We will also demand a handover note, we will also write to PricewaterhouseCoopers to do a thorough audit of the accounts of the APC since June last year when the Buni-led Caretaker Committee was inaugurated to establish the exact state of things.

“However, we will not fall into the same trap young people fell into with the EndSARS situation. We will never be confrontational. We will follow the laws to the letters in informing them when to vacate for us to move in. Because we are young people that need to set the pace, we will be hiring another office to act temporarily until they vacate come January 3, 2022.”

Announcing the zoning of the national leadership to be contested on February 26, 2022, the group disclosed that the north will produce the national chairman, the south the deputy national chairman, while the deputy national chairman (north) will be a female. All except the chairman must be 45 years and below.

The national secretary (south), national legal adviser (north), national treasurer (south), national financial secretary (north), national organising secretary (north), and the national publicity secretary (south).

In a reaction, the APC national secretary, John Akpan-Udoedehe, dismissed the “felonious activities of the purported group”.

A statement by Akpn-Udoedehe said the group is unknown to the party, its structure or as a registered support group and therefore non-existent.

“However laughable, the criminal attempt of the purported group to usurp the leadership of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC now bothers on treasonable felony.

“Relevant security bodies must now check and address their unscrupulous activities. The attention the purported group seeks will not be given to them by the party.

“We can only advise that the general public completely disregard them. They are not registered members of the APC and are being used by opposition elements and fifth columnists to cause confusion.

“As widely reported, the successful meeting between the APC leadership, Progressive Governors’ Forum and the president produced February 2022 as the timeframe for the national convention,” Udoedehe noted.

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