The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has summoned the seven members of the caretaker committee of Benue APC to an emergency meeting over an attempt to dissolve the party’s local government structure.
The party warned the committee against contravening its terms of reference while it pilots the affairs of the party.
Addressing journalists after the meeting of the NWC on Tuesday in Abuja, the party’s Deputy National Women Leader, Hajia Zainab Ibrahim, said the leadership of the party summoned the members of Benue Caretaker committee following their decision to dissolve the party’s local government structure.
Her words: “This evening, the National Working Committee of our great party met with the newly formed caretaker committee to administer the affairs of APC in Benue State for six months.
“This call was a result of complaints from Benue that the committee has dissolved some local government party executives.
“This made the NWC to summon the seven-man caretaker committee to read to them clearly their ‘Terms of Reference.’
“Their terms of reference as stated by the APC is to administer the party in Benue State for six months and also to conduct the election for the forthcoming local government elections.
“It is also part of their mandate to constitute the logistics that will conduct the elections from the LG to the ward level. And this has been clearly stated to them.
“They have no business dissolving, of course, dissolving any committee. Their terms of reference have been clearly stated and they have been asked not to go beyond their terms of reference.”