apc crisis

A federal high court in Lagos has fixed May 3 to hear a suit by Adewale Hameed, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), challenging the purported tenure elongation of the national working committee (NWC) of the party led by John Odigie-Oyegun. Read more via TODAY.NG –...

President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed that the current leadership of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, led by John Odigie-Oyegun is not eligible to seek re-election in the forthcoming congresses and national convention of the party. Read more via The Trent –...

Rather than go away, tenure elongation is still haunting the All Progressives Congress (APC). Some of its members yesterday cried out over the content of a memo presented to the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Monday by Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun. They claimed that a portion of...

A resolution that was reportedly adopted unanimously by members of the All Progressives Congress National Executive Committee (APC-NEC) has given the current National Working Committee (NWC) an approval to continue overseeing the affairs of the party for another one year in the absence of a...

From the Photographs below, it seems there is no Bad blood between president Muhammadu Buhari and national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun after the former foiled the NWC tenure extension and declared all NWC members including him ineligible to contest in congresses/convention at the party's...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he is not sure that current officers of the All Progressives Congress can meet the conditions for their re-election While he noted that the current executives of the party at all levels are free to re-contest their positions, he said he was not sure of...

Chief Don Etiebet, an ex-Minister of Petroleum under General Sani Abacha’s regime has emerged the leading candidate to replace chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun. His emergence followed a decision taken by governors of the ruling Party at a closed-door...

Whoever thought that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), exactly five years after its formation five years ago primarily to wrest power from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), would find itself in almost similar circumstances as the main opposition party, which at the height of its...

Opponents of tenure elongation have carried the day in the All Progressives Congress (APC). Its National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, last night bowed to pressure from governors and party leaders to forego tenure extension. He has summoned an emergency meeting of the National Working...

Fresh facts emerged yesterday that some governors of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some party leaders are adamant on the retention of the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and other members of the National Working Committee (NWC) because of some personal reasons...

As members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) heave sigh of relief over the resolution of the recent tenure elongation crisis that nearly tore the apart, many party faithful would be shocked to learn that it is not yet uhuru for the ruling party. This is because the crisis in the APC has...

THE Technical Committee set up to advise the National Executive Committee NEC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC on the issue of tenure elongation for party officials submitted its report Friday evening, expressing optimism that its recommendations if implemented, would strengthen the...

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is already making moves to retain his position at the forthcoming convention of the party scheduled for June. He will, however, have to square up with some contending forces in the party who are...

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa state, Perekeme Kpodo, has declared that the national chairman of the ruling party, John Odigie-Oyegun, does not have any reason to remain in the position. Kpodo, a former interim chairman of APC in Bayelsa, said in a statement on...

Proponents of tenure extension for All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun and others seem to be adamant, The Nation learnt yesterday. There is a plot to create a stalemate and dump President Muhammadu Buhari’s and the APC governors’ decision on National Convention, it was...

The differences between All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and President Muhammadu Buhari over the structure and future of the party widened, yesterday, after a reconciliatory meeting on the issues ended in a deadlock. Several governors, who attended the meeting with the President, came...

As part of a last-ditch strategy to force the party’s hand to conduct congresses and elect new party executives, as demanded by President Muhammadu Buhari, some All Progressives Congress governors are scheming to manipulate existing party procedures by backdating a letter to members of the...

In a move that may likely create confusion for the ruling All Progressives Congress, two governors on the party’s platform have concluded plans to convene an illegal National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. LEADERSHIP gathered that the governors, one from the North and the other from one of...

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has stated that the ruling party has resolved the issues dividing it, The Cable reports. Oyegun made the comment after meeting with five governors of the party – Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara, Simon Lalong of Plateau...

All the 24 governors of the All Progressives Congress have agreed with President Muhammadu Buhari that the party's constitution should be respected in electing a new National Working Committee of the party. Zamfara State Governor Abdulaziz Yari disclosed this to State House correspondents today...