The National Executive Committee of the ruling All Progressives Congress rose from its emergency meeting on Tuesday with the dissolution of all states, zonal, and national party structures.
It also extended by six months the tenure of the party’s caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee led by Governor Mai Buni.
President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and other party chiefs attended the meeting of the committee where these decisions were taken.
Briefing State House Correspondents, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, said that the party also approved the expulsion of former National Vice Chairman, South-south, Ntufam Hilliard Eta, for his failure to withdraw the court case he instituted against the caretaker committee.
Other party governors that spoke to the correspondents were Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Hope Uzodinma (Imo), and Secretary of the CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe.
Buhari, at the meeting, appealed to party members at all levels to make sacrifices that would move the party forward.
He said this in his opening remarks at the ongoing meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“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.
“Everyone of us as leaders ensured that those decisions were respected. I have through consultations of the caretaker committee and other leaders of the party, agree that our challenges in the party require that we take steps to rebuild the party from wards to national levels.
“The initiative to carry out membership registration revalidation is, therefore, a necessary, membership registration revalidation will lay the foundation for reorganizing our membership from ward to local government, state, and national levels.
“The responsibility of our party’s NEC at this meeting is to adopt and dispassionately consider all proposals submitted by the caretaker committee and grant all the necessary approvals requested to rebuild the party.”
