Summon NEC Meeting In A Week — Salihu Lukman Gives APC Ultimatum

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Malam Salihu Lukman, a high-ranking member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee, has given the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, a seven-day ultimatum to convene an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC).

The meeting is to discuss the anomalies in the party, including a smooth transition between the outgoing administration and the incoming government of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

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Lukman, who is the APC National Vice Chairman for North West, warned that failure to summon the NEC meeting would make him seek a court injunction to enforce compliance in line with the provisions of APC Constitution. The warning was contained in an open letter titled “Restoring Constitutional Order in APC – Not Negotiable” issued by his media office in Abuja on Wednesday.

The face-off between Lukman and Adamu has been ongoing for the past year, with Lukman repeatedly accusing Adamu of running a one-man show and reducing the NWC members to a mere rubber stamp to approve important decisions he singlehandedly takes. Adamu has also been indicted for deliberately refusing to give an up-to-date account of the party’s purse, including the undisclosed billions of naira raised from the sales of nomination and expression of interest forms to aspiring contestants in line with the provisions of Article 13.4(iv) of the APC Constitution on financial report, income, and expenditure.

Lukman stressed that it has become imperative for him to write the chairman again with a caveat following the manner Adamu had shunned previous requests to convene NEC meetings, which is to be a quarterly convergence of all relevant stakeholders.

He said, “I make this an open letter because it is about campaigning to return the APC to its foundation, which requires that we mobilize all like-minded party leaders and members in this crusade to restore constitutional order in the APC. As a person, I have concluded that everything must be done to compel you to respect the constitution of our party and manage its affairs based on the requirements of our constitution and not your personal discretion.

“Therefore, by this open letter, I am serving you notice of one week from today, being Wednesday, April 19, 2023, to take all the appropriate steps required to convene a NEC meeting before May 29, 2023, wherein all the issues bordering on the management of smooth transition between the outgoing government of President Buhari and the incoming government of President Asiwaju Tinubu can be considered.

“If by the end of this one-week notice, no action is taken to convene a NEC meeting as the first step to restore constitutional order in APC, I will not hesitate to take further actions, including approaching our courts to enforce compliance with the provisions of our party’s constitution under your leadership.

“The current NWC under your leadership should stop acting as a Trojan Horse programmed to destroy our party. Only compliance with and respect for our constitution by allowing all our superior organs, notably NEC, National Caucus and NAC, to function and take decisions accordingly, which should be binding on all party leaders and members can secure our party. This is not negotiable!”

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Efforts to get the reaction of Adamu, who was a two-term governor of Nasarawa State, in the past and present have failed to yield any result. The APC National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, has also been evasive and declined to comment on the leadership crisis rocking the party.

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