All Progressives
Congress (APC ) National Working
Committee has moved into the chaos rocking the Bayelsa state chapter of the
party by invalidating suspensions carried out by the different factions in the
state.
The
party, on Monday, also ordered the status quo ante
be maintained.
This
directive was handed down by the National Vice Chairman (South-South) of the
APC, Hilliard Eta, while also calling on all the warring factions to sheathe
their swords and allow a committee set up by the zonal organ to examine the
remote and immediate causes of the conflict and submit its report before
further action.
Eta,
in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said: “The spate of
suspensions, counter-suspensions and general disorganisations of the Bayelsa
State chapter of our great party – the All Progressives Congress, is
disheartening.
“That
the state chapter could be on the warpath at a time that it should be
cohesively charting ways to successfully prosecute the election petition
tribunal case concerning the recently held gubernatorial election, in which
Seriake Dickson supposedly won, is even more saddening.
“As
the Chairman of the party in the zone, I am particularly miffed by the state of
affairs in the Bayelsa APC and I publicly exhort the aggrieved parties to
sheath their swords.
“Going
by the provisions of Article 21 of the amended constitution of our party, the
suspensions are null and void and done in bad faith. In the said article, our
constitution lucidly outlines the steps to be diligently followed for a party
member or executive to be suspended.”
According
to Eta, going by the provisions of the party’s constitution, the suspension
carried out in Bayelsa are null and void as far as the APC was concerned,
calling on the all parties to the crisis to return to the status quo ante in
the interest of the party.
He
also disclosed that the zonal organ of the party has delegated a committee to
investigate and make recommendations for appropriate action.
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