The Forum of States Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress, National Secretary, Dr. Ben Nwoye, says all members that went to court to challenge the extension of the tenure of the present national executives stand expelled from the party.
Nwoye said the expulsion is in line with the party constitution which clearly spells out such punitive measure for anyone that resort to the court of law without exhausting all internal avenues for resolving whatever misunderstanding that may arise within the party.
Insisting that there was no basis for dragging the party to court over the decision of the NEC to extend the tenure of the national executives, Nwoye said he and his colleagues were surprised to hear that some forum members had gone to court after they had accepted extension of tenures for the party executives nationwide.
Further, Nwoye who is the party chairman in Enugu said, “However, Article 21 (a) of our party constitution recommends automatic expulsion for members that take the party to court without exhausting all available internal settlement measures.
“The provision is a self-executor and does not need a committee to pronounce the expulsion on them. But once they withdraw the action, they automatically regain their memberships.
“We (APC state chairmen) agreed on tenure extensions because this is election year and that it will harm the party if you go into extensive convention.
“The 37 chairmen agreed on the extension because we are all aware of different crises in the country and we did not want to compound the crises and so, we passed votes of confidence on President Buhari and on the Tinubu’s reconciliation committee.
“Only four voted against the decision but that could not override the majority votes. They did not petition to the party’s NEC or the Tinubu committee and they now went to court”, he stated.
He stated that he suspected that the erring members were being manipulated by the emerging third force and the PDP to destroy the APC.
