…Says Buni-committee planning for July
By Anjola Folajimi
The Prince Mustapha Audu led parallel Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has vowed that the party’s National Convention that will usher in new members of the National Working Committee (NWC) will still be conducted by February 26.
The factional CECPC which emerged late last year under the aegis of the Progressives Youth Movement (PYM) also accused the Mai Mala Buni-led CECPC of planning to shift the party’s convention to July.
The self-appointed factional chairman of the party disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday after a meeting of his committee, members of PYM and some leaders of Buhari Support Group (BSG).
Audu who was a governorship aspirant in Kogi State in 2019 said his caretaker committee has notified the necessary institutions on the February 26 national convention, adding that the Department of State Services (DSS) and other security agents are also aware of the planned convention.
Addressing newsmen Audu said, “February 26 is our own (PYM) convention, we are going ahead with it. We don’t see any reason why we should stop.
“There have been meetings between ourselves, the DSS, between the leadership of some of the party, and it is clear that what we did has affected their plans. They didn’t plan to hold any convention till July or August.
“And the convention, they intend to do it with the party primaries for the presidency at the same time. So, a lot of illegalities are going on, and by our declaration, we truncated that. We brought the date for the convention, it has affected some of the leaders that didn’t intend to go forward. But we don’t care.”
On the implication of organizing a parallel convention on the forthcoming governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun, he said they are protecting the party from further fractures with their moves.
“We don’t want more fractures within the party. But sometimes, to make an omelette, you must break eggs. All the time, to make some omelettes, you must break eggs. We are trying to break some eggs to make beautiful omelettes to eat very well,” Audu concluded.
