A former Vice President and chieftain of All Progressives Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has charged the party to promote the rule of law and due process in the conduct of its affairs, noting that they were germane to its unity and stability.
He gave the charge in a statement on Wednesday against the background of the festering crisis trailing the conduct of the APC gubernatorial primary in Ondo State.

A former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, had on Sunday demanded the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, accusing him of favouring an aspirant in the gubernatorial primaries in Ondo State and forcing his choice through using a sleight of hand.

Mr. Tinubu, who alleged that the national chairman was perpetrating injustice, said the development showed that there was an evil and regressive force within the APC using Mr. Oyegun to derail the party’s democratic and progressive tenets.

The name of a former National President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu, was forwarded to the Independent National Electoral Commission, as the APC candidate in the November election, despite protest by other aspirants and some members of the party’s national working committee.

Mr. Abubakar said it was imperative for the national leadership of the party to live by the rules of internal democracy and respect for democratic consensus, warning that “you cannot break your own rules without creating problems.”
He argued that the party was supposed to be an impartial entity in the arbitration of crisis amongst its members in any given election.

He further contended that since the APC found veritable reasons to review the outcome of the gubernatorial primary election it conducted in Ondo State, and was able to establish valid grounds to cancel that election and call for a fresh one, the decision to deviate from its own resolution is a negation of due process and an unfashionable hollow in democratic best practices.
“It was wrong for the APC to have set aside a resolution it had reached aimed at resolving the crisis in our party in Ondo State. It is a recipe for acrimony and division,” he said.

The former vice president also noted that pretending a problem doesn’t exist won’t make that problem go away, and therefore, advised the leadership of the party to do a soul searching and address why this problem arose and escalated.

According to Mr. Atiku, the party leadership should always be guided by respect for the rules, fairness, equity, neutrality and respect for democratic consensus.

He, however, urged aggrieved members of the APC in the Ondo election to exercise restraint in seeking redress to the crisis.

He also urged the leadership of the party to retrace its steps and do the needful to restore confidence among the conflicting parties in the state for the overall benefit of the ruling party.
SOURCE: Premium Times Nigeria

And the alignment/ realignment continues.

Very soon there will be no APC!

politics

Hmmm

Try jagaban at your own peril

Ask abacha Obasanjo & Gej

Politicians Dont Fight......Take Note!

ATIKU SUPPORTING TINUBU Yeye Men!



Meanwhile I am waiting for the results of our efforts in Edo! IPOB Youths Must Hear Am Today!

Attack on Tinubu is attack on Yoruba. Buhari is an ingrate. APC is going down!

Ok

sarrki:
Hmmm

Try jagaban at your own peril

Ask abacha Obasanjo & Gej

Jagaban is spend..no sentiments.

Forget your noise and the media..atiku bleeped him with the senate leadership,and what?..AG..just stall saraki's case.
You guys just shout jagaba with out understanding the politics of the country
If jagaba is not spend. Why is he shouting?who is beating him..
Kwankwaso went tru similar in his state..no body heard his voice. likewise. Saraki..
Political Dons don't make noise..unless they're drowning..
Dasuki is ibb man..till tomorrow..ve you seen ibb make noise or write notes to buhari..
My man, tinubu is down,maybe not out..atiku is only playing politics..
And that's nigeria politics for you..by 2017 august..you will understand better..
Not media noise..
No sentiments

agwom:
Very soon there will be no APC!

There never was APC.

This was PDP ver 2.0

Next will be PDP ver 3.0, where all these same thieving politicans move to the newly named party to pretend they are different because the name of the party is different.

Then ignorant Nigerians who all lack education and brain will vote for them and continue this charade.

A thief will surely back a thief. Oyegun is also a thief but on a slightly smaller scale

NgeneUkwenu:
Politicians Dont Fight......Take Note!

ATIKU SUPPORTING TINUBU Yeye Men!



Meanwhile I am waiting for the results of our efforts in Edo! IPOB Youths Must Hear Am Today!

In ur community, locality, place of residence, work, in ur country, continent and d world at large ; btw u and Atiku who z Yeye?
Let us assume u both are yeye.

Btw u n Atiku wu yeye pass?

NgeneUkwenu:
Politicians Dont Fight......Take Note!

ATIKU SUPPORTING TINUBU Yeye Men!



Meanwhile I am waiting for the results of our efforts in Edo! IPOB Youths Must Hear Am Today!

Atiku is a wise politician. He cannot attack Tinubu publicly. Even Oyegun has refused to attack Tinubu despite the call for his resignation. Most APC leaders will take side with Tinubu since he's fighting a just cause.

Yeye dey smell.

It is not about being a thief, is tinubu an aspirant or among the party's aspirants at the election that are all calling for re-run, we should face fact sometimes, and stop pointing accusing fingers. The election was fraudulent, and all aspirants who are not even tinubu loyalists are calling for councellation. Samething similar happened in bayelsa, the same oyegun accept the report of the committee, and a re-run was ordered, what has changed. I admire aketi, bt if akeredolu is confident of himself I don't see why he should fear a re-run. Injustice to one is injustice to all, if the same tinubu had done what this guy did, these same people shouting, will be the first to attack him and call him names, have never met nor do I know asiwaju, but justice should be served right. Atiku was right to have supported him.