BY BENEDICT NWACHUKWU, ABUJA
The National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Senator John Akpanudodehe, has said that the party would not join issues with Senator Kabiru Marafa over his vituperation against the leadership of the party.
Akpanudodehe said in an address on the issue that “Our attention has been drawn to the uninformed and misguided comments by Senator Kabiru Marafa regarding the All Progressives Congress Ward Congresses held in Zamfara State on Saturday, 13th November, 2021.
“While the APC will not join issues with Senator Marafa who is supposed to be one of the party leaders in Zamfara State but chooses to denigrate the party and its leaders, it is important to set the records straight.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the APC received intelligence reports bordering on the security of the Zamfara State APC Ward Congress Committee, hence the need to temporarily suspend their activities. That necessitated the letter of 5th November, 2021 to the Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari.
“After evaluation and consultations, the Committee, in a letter dated 10th November, 2021 was okayed to proceed with the conduct of the Zamfara State Ward Congresses on Saturday 13th, November 2021, in which Senator Marafa participated. This had nothing to do with the 21-day notice for the conduct of wards, local government areas and state congresses in Zamfara State earlier sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission, which subsists.
“The letter to Alhaji Ibrahim Kabir Masari, which Senator Marafa is brandishing, is an internal administrative correspondence and was not copied to INEC nor any other agency or person(s) as the case may be.
“This clarification is necessary to guide Senator Marafa and his cohorts who seem bent on misleading our teeming party members in Zamfara State.
“The party urges Senator Marafa and his cohorts not to reduce the political issues to a contest of personalities but submit to party supremacy and internal dispute resolution structures adequately provided for by the APC constitution.
“Anything outside this amounts to insubordination and indiscipline and the APC constitution is very clear on this.”
