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Any aggrieved member of Nigeria’s governing, the All Progressives Congress, APC who takes the party to court without following the party’s internal conflict resolution mechanism will be sanctioned.
A Chieftain of APC and a former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Patrick Obahiagbon, stated this when he briefed journalists on the successes of the APC’s Caretaker/ Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee led by Governor Mai Mala Buni at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja.
The former federal lawmaker said party members need to follow procedure in resolving conflict adding that the party is clear on the fate of people who go to court without first following the APC’s conflict resolution procedure.
He said, “The APC has a constitution and the party’s constitution is quite clear on issues that have to do with the necessity of members of this political party to exhaust all domestic remedies.
“As to what the sanction would be, for any member of this party who has fallen short of respecting the party’s constitution, not only with regard to taking the CECPC to court, the constitutional provision is to the effect that disciplinary sanctions will have to start from the ward of such members.
“Disciplinary actions will have to go to the ward, local government, states before it comes to the National Secretariat.
“So, the CECPC will not by itself discipline any member of the political party that has not been (sanctioned) from ward, local government, state and to national secretariat.”
“All I can tell you is that, when all such activities have passed through the democratic rigours and get the national secretariat, this CECPC, under the able leadership of Governor Mai-Mala Buni, will not shake in its responsibility constitutional onus, it will dispense justice to all manner of men without fear or favour and in a very transparent modus,”Obahiagbon said.
Her enjoined party members who were aggrieved on account of the last ward congresses to approach the appeal committees to seek redress.
It would be recalled that only a few days earlier, 100 members of the party went to court to seek the dissolution of the Buni-led committee.
Lateefah Ibrahim
