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.

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.