New APC constitution to scrap BoT and tackle indiscipline

The proposed amendments to the constitution of the All Progressives Congress will prioritise party discipline as well as accountability.

The party will equally be taking a second look at the use of its discretionary waiver which confers on a new entrant the privileges enjoyed by older members.

Other amendments being considered include a change in nomenclature, membership and number of persons eligible to be on the party’s Board of Trustees.

Report says ”an Elders’ Council, made up of present and former Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Senate President/ Deputy Senate President as well as former National Chairmen of the legacy parties, who are still members of the APC, will form the nucleus of the council.”

It said that Articles 13 and 20 of the APC Constitution 2014 (as amended) are likely to receive attention.

The Articles 13 and 20 for amendments were earlier recommended by the Muiz Banire-led constitutional amendment panel under the leadership of former National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee.

Also, the representative of youths in the APC Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Ismaeel Ahmed, revealed plans by the party’s youths to push through amendments of their own.

He said ”youths were proposing an amendment to the APC constitution to compel elected and appointed leaders to go back to their wards to sell the policies and programmes of the party.”

NP/Mercy Chukwudiebere