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Benue APC, chieftain suspended APC Youth Frontier questioned the platform used in carrying out the said expulsion You cant just suspend Young Alhaji from APC in Benue .Youth Frontier Benue zone C reacted Benue APC in crisis, chieftain suspended Written by Johnson babajide - Makurdi CRISIS rocking Benue State chapter of the All Peoples Congress (APC) took a new dimension, with the purported suspension of one of the chieftains, Alhaji Usman Abubakar. However, in a swift reaction to the suspension, a group, APC Youth Frontier, led by Mr Maxwel Ogiri, has described the suspension as a figment of the imagination of those who called themselves APC caucus members from the senatorial district. Some chieftains of the party in the area, including Chiefs Benson Abounu, Aame Diga and Nelson Alapa, last week, announced the expulsion of Alhaji Abubakar, whose activities they said were out of tune with aspirations of the party. According to the statement by the senatorial district chapter of the APC Youth Frontier, signed by Comrades Maxwell Ogiri, Agene John and Leo Unogwu and made available to newsmen in Makurdi, Benue State capital, the body questioned the political platform used in carrying out the said expulsion, since no single person had been registered as a member of APC, even as the state harmonisation committee of the party was yet to be inaugurated. “Where did the so-called ‘ACN stakeholders’ and ‘APC caucus members’ of Benue South Senatorial District, as they called themselves, derive their powers or authorities from? Under what political platform were they operating?” the body queried. It further asked other petinent questions on the said expulsion; “under what party constitution were these impostors operating? Can one who is not a registered card-carrying member of a political party suspend or at worst expel one who has not been registered?” The Benue APC Youth Frontier sympathised with the masterminds of the purported expulsion, Comrade Abba Yaro, former chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Benue State chapter, Honourable Nelson Alapa, former member of the House of Representatives, Chief Ameh Diga and Chief Benson Abounu, a two-time commissioner during Senator George Akume’s regime as governor of the state, for lacking the capacity to know what they should do when it came to political arrangements and organs. According to the body, being a card-carrying member of the ACN, CPC and ANPP did not automatically transform one into a full member of the APC, it was until one was duly registered as a card-carrying member of the party after all party organs at every level were in place. Although the body said it is not surprised at the action of these personalities whom it said were jostling for different elective positions, ranging from deputy governor to the state chairman of the party, as well as the senatorial, House of Representatives and SSG position, it, however, said they lacked the electoral values at their various polling stations to bring their dreams to reality. “Regrettably, these political honey-baggers do not have any electoral value at their various polling units, not to talk of ward, let alone their local government areas,” the group emphasised. Although without conceding that calling Abounu, Diga and Alapa names amounted to an expulsion from the party, the body, however, observed that Senator Akume should have been long expelled from the party for calling Ambassador Gbasha, Honourable Aboho, Elder Ninga, Joe Waya and others animals, dogs and fraudsters. The body, while absolving Young Alhaji, who it said had been consisted in spending his hard-earned money in the cause of the opposition in the state of any corrupt practice in the previous elections advocated for opportunity for every senatorial district which have different political and cultural peculiarities to determine their political activity in conjunction with their political leaders. It accused those behind the purported expulsion of Young Alhaji of attempting to hijack the party and make it a money- making venture during elections, lamenting that the state had suffered great setback in terms of dividends of democracy since 1999, due to godfatherism and imposition of candidates during elections.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:40:16 +0000

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