BREAKING: APC expels ex-vice chairman Eta, dissolves party structures

The National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress has expelled a former National Vice Chairman of the party, South-South, Ntufam Hilliard Eta.

The party’s NEC also dissolved states, zonal, and national party structures across the country at its committee meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday.

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It also extended the tenure of the party’s caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee led by Governor Mai Buni by six months.

In attendance at the meeting were President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, governors and other party chiefs.

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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai said the party approved the expulsion of Eta for failing  to withdraw the court case instituted against the caretaker committee.

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Buhari had earlier  asked party leaders to respect its decisions. He had said, “I want to appeal to all our party members and leaders at all levels, to try and make the required sacrifices so that we are able to collectively restore our progressive and democratic political party, which can nurture and give expression to our collective dream of building a strong, united and developed Nigeria.

“May I use this opportunity to remind all of us of the need to recreate our negotiation secret of 2012, 2013 under our legacy parties.  What guided our success to achieve the merger that produced the APC was the respect we were able to have for each other.

“In those times, decisions reached at both formal and informal consultations were respected with trusted initiatives taken and believed that they were needed to produce the required political platform that could guarantee electoral victory.

“As leaders, let’s ensure that those decisions were respected. Our challenges in the party require that we take steps to rebuild the party from wards to national levels.”