BY OLALEKAN BADMOS
Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Owan West
local government of Edo state have petitioned the National Interim Executive of the
party to warn against appointing executive officers without going through due
process.
The party faithful, who said they were acting on information
that some leaders of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, have concluded
arrangements to impose their cronies as executive officer of APC across the
wards and local governments in the state, warned that such action would spell doom
for the party.
The petition dated February 18 was sent to the national body
through its South-South Vice Chairman, Tom Ikimi.
According to a leader of the party in Owan West, Matthew
Okhiria, the people effectively poured their mind in the letter with the
hope that their leaders would do the needful to save the party from the
impending calamity.
Okhiria added that the party faithful expressed their desire
to be part of genuine congresses where all card-carrying members will elect
their leaders in a free, fair and transparent arrangement, saying such is the
hallmark of democracy.
He explained that the petition became necessary after the
party members in the local government met in Sabongida-Ora recently to
review the alleged imposition of party executives without proper congresses and resolved
not to be part of the charade.
"We unanimously resolved to reject in its entirety this
novel development because of its proclivity to cause tension and cataclysmic
Armageddon.
"We shall not remain aloof and allow greedy and
parasitic politicians to convert the local government into a conquered enclave
in Edo state,” the petition read in part.
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