There is a clandestine move by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to replace the
Board of Trustees (BoT) with ‘Council of Elders’.
This may be ratified during today’s National
Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the
party.
A vote to amend the APC constitution to
accommodate the new organ, Daily Trust
reports, was taken at the Tuesday national
caucus which held at the new banquet hall of
the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In attendance were President Muhammadu
Buhari, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, APC
National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, former
Vice President Atiku Abubakar, APC National
Leader, Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
Others were Senate President, Bukola Saraki,
House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu
Dogara, Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, House
Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila, some state
governors among others.
If the plan scales through, the NEC will ratify
the nullification of the BoT and approve the
constitution of a council of elders at national,
zonal and state levels.
Such development means election of the BoT
chairman, deputy chairman and secretary as
well as the BoT meeting rescheduled for next
week will no longer hold.
Atiku and Tinubu have been working round the
clock to clinch the APC BoT chairmanship
position.
Observers believe the move by the APC to scrap
the BoT is to forestall bad blood among party
bigwigs.
“Any form of election at this may result in cold
war among influential members because they are
already divided as to who to queue behind for
the positions of BoT Chairman and Secretary
respectively,” a political analyst, Olasunkanmi
Adeyombo told DAILY POST.
“The two major contenders have what I would
call ‘near-equal’ followership, so allowing them
go against each other will snowball into trouble.
In my opinion, APC is trying to avoid a conflict
of ego.”
Daily Trust
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