The All Progressives Congress (APC) said that the purported suspension of its North-East National Vice Chairman, Mustapha Salihu, was a nullity.
Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, the APC newly-appointed National Publicity Secretary, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
“Our attention has been drawn to the purported suspension of the APC National Vice Chairman (North-East), Comrade Mustapha Salihu by the North-East zonal office.
“We state categorically that the purported suspension is a nullity as the North-East zonal office does not have such powers to suspend a national officer.
“According to the party’s Constitution, such powers reside with the National Executive Committee (NEC),”he said.
Issa-Onilu added that whatever issues there might be, the party structure and Constitution had provided ample avenues for redress and dispute resolution.
He maintained that if the North-East zonal office was unable to achieve a resolution, the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) could and would wade into the matter to achieve amicable settlement.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Secretary of the APC North-East Zone, Abubakar Ajiya, on Saturday, announced the suspension of Salihu.
Ajiya announced the suspension in a letter addressed to Salihu and entitled; `Re: Letter of Vote of No Confidence, saying that the suspension was in line with the party’s Constitution.(NAN)
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