Frustrated by Oyegun’s inaction, APC NEC members write Buhari over neglect

National Executive Council (NEC) members of the All Progressives Congress have decried their continuous neglect by the party.

They have therefore in a letter entitled, “Save our party – APC”, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in their matter.

The members who go by the name Forum of APC NEC, cried in the letter that the ‘Save our party’ letter to the President became necessary following several letters the forum sent to the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, that received no positive response.

A copy of the letter dated April 6, 2017, was released to journalists on Sunday and was signed by the National Ex-Officio/South-West Coordinator, Omolayo Akintola.

Bemoaning lack of “positive reaction” by the party Odigie-Ouegun to several letters the forum has written and directed to him, the NEC members pleaded with Buhari to help ensure that the Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee (NEC) of the party speedily summon a NEC meeting, which will afford members the opportunity to deal with the issues undermining cohesiveness within the party’s rank and file.

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The letter read in part, “To be noted for appropriate advice is the exclusion of a sizeable number of federating states from the scheme of things within the party because many states are not presently represented by party officers on the current National Working Committee, hence, the need to be having regular NEC meetings pending the much awaited amendment to the present party constitution.

“We, therefore, deemed it necessary putting this letter across for your timely actions to save our great party from preventable, avoidable and unnecessary intra-party/in-house cracks that the present situation might generate.”

The forum cautioned that if no action is taken to address the concerns raised by party members across several levels, it could see the party snowball into intra-party crack, which ordinarily should have been prevented.

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