The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) rose from a meeting at the Party’s National Secretariat on Wednesday affirming Sen. Abiola Ajimobi as the Party’s Acting National Chairman following the Appeal Court’s ruling affirming the suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman.
According to the party’s spokesperson, Lanre Issa-Onilu, NWC says the decision is in line with Section 14.2 (iii) of the Party’s Constitution.
However, due to Sen. Ajimobi’s unavoidable absence, NWC unanimously appointed the Party’s National Vice Chairman (South South), Prince Hilliard Etta to act on Sen. Ajimobi’s behalf.
The action NWC says is backed by the Party’s constitution which empowers the NWC to appoint one of its members in acting capacity and stipulates that the acting National chairman must be from the zone of the National Chairman.
Prompt News recalls that APC Deputy National Chairman, Victor Giadom, had at a press conference on Wednesday morning, declared himself the acting national chairman and went ahead to cancel the Edo governorship primary.
