Niger: No petition before APC Appeal Panel-Chairman

The Chairman of the APC’s State Congress Appeal Committee for Niger State, Ray Murphy, says no petition has so far been received by his committee.

Murphy explained that the Committee sat in the open and conducted its affairs in line with the mandate given to it by the Caretaker/ National Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

In a Press Statement he signed in Abuja on Wednesday, Murphy said, “From ward congresses through local government, up to state level, the APC congresses in Niger were splendid. The State adopted the option of consensus in which every interest group was represented and carried along.

“As the Chairman of the Appeal Committee for the three levels of Congress, I can confirm that we received no petition or complaint.

“My committee was on ground in Minna at the Party Secretariat and no one showed up with either a written or oral petition.

“We had several stakeholders meeting and all we were getting was commendation for the democratic and inclusive nature of the process in Niger state.”

On claims from some quarters that the committee was unavailable to receive petitions, Murphy said; “I am therefore surprised that anyone can claim that he or she sought to submit a petition and was denied.

“That in my view is a figment of such a person’s imagination because the congresses were done in the open and witnessed by all relevant agencies that were empowered to do so.

“Our sittings as an Appeal Committee were also in the open. No one showed up to complain.”

Mercy Chukwudiebere