By Ahmad Umar
A group within the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Gombe State, northeast of the country, Adalci Advocacy Group has urged the Party’s National Convention Committee to nullify the last Saturday ward congress.
The group lost in the exercise due to what it called political intrigue and manipulation in the conduct of the Congress.
The leader of the group Abubakar Aliyu told Journalists in Gombe on Tuesday shortly after presenting a petition to the party Congress Appeal Committee in the state, that the state ward congress was “funny” politics which should not be accepted .
He appealed to the Appeal Committee as matter of justice and fair play to fix a new date for the Ward Congress to be held in the state
“We expect internal democracy and internal democracy is the way to go. Those kinds of funny politics that were played must stop, and we are calling the National Convention committee should take the necessary steps to correct this in our party APC not just in Gombe State but across the whole nation, to make sure that there is respect for internal democracy in the party.
“With all the undertaking by the Chairman of the committee Kawu Sumaila there were no elections? held throughout the state, three members of ward committee did not turn-up at the venue up to 6:00pm on Saturday which thousands of party supports congregated for the election at the ward level across the state.
“Absolutely clear that there were neither election nor consensus held in 114 wards in the state incompliance with party constitution and the guideline to the congresses”, Aliyu said.
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