{"id":88691,"date":"2021-11-17T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88691"},"modified":"2021-11-17T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:28:06","slug":"expelling-me-from-apc-will-cause-more-crisis-marafa-threatens-buni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/expelling-me-from-apc-will-cause-more-crisis-marafa-threatens-buni\/","title":{"rendered":"Expelling me from APC will cause more crisis, Marafa threatens Buni\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from Zamfara state, Senator Kabiru Garba Marafa has brushed off threats by the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party to throw him out of the APC, saying doing so would only aggravate the problems afflicting the party.<\/div>\n
\nMarafa in a statement issued Wednesday in Abuja urged Governor Buni to respect the rule of law, saying the Yobe state Governor should stop deluding himself as the national chairman of the APC, declaring that he is only chairman of the party\u2019s convention planning committee.<\/p>\n

He dismissed threats by the caretaker committee to expel him for expressing reservations on its legality, describing it as an empty threat.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nMarafa, who represented the Zamfara Central Senatorial District in the last assembly, had on Sunday, threatened to institute legal actions against Governor Buni\u2019s CECPC over what he termed gross violations of the party\u2019s constitution in the conduct of party\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAPC is a political party, not a committee. Committees are created to serve specific functions not to usurp the powers of the entire legal entity.<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\u201cThe function of the Mai Mala committee is to plan a convention just as its name implies. Mai Mala is the chairman of the APC convention planning committee and not APC itself,\u201d said Marafa.<\/p>\n

According to him, Section 12.3 of the APC constitution lists the party\u2019s National Executive Committee NEC members \u201cand it made the National Chairman of the party and not the chairman of any committee by whatever name as the chairman of the organ while Section 12.3 (xxxi) lists the President and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as members only, so the question is; who approved the constitution and subsequent extensions of tenure of office of the illegal and obnoxious CECPC?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis is the situation we find ourselves. The Chairman of APC today is an overzealous chairman of convention planning committee only and a sitting governor\u201d, Marafa declared.<\/div>\n
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The CECPC had in a statement issued Monday in Abuja through its Secretary, Sen. John James Akpanudodehe warned Marafa to shape in or shape out.<\/p>\n

The party threatened to wield the big stick, saying Marafa\u2019s actions and utterances constitute insubordination and reduction of party issues to personality contest.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nReacting to the threat, Marafa said he cannot be silenced by the caretaker committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cExpelling me from the party will only aggravate the problem. It will herald the beginning of the agitation; rule of law must be respected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe committee is illegal and alien to the constitution of the party. We are building everything on nothing. Rather than the expulsion threat, the committee or the chairman should respond to issues I raised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat does our party constitution says that renders Buni\u2019s committee null and void? Section 17 (4) of the constitution of our beloved party, says \u2018no officer in any organ of the party shall hold executive position office in government concurrently\u2019. Article 20 states the only way the leadership of the party can evolve.<\/p>\n

\u201cSection 13.3(iv) which was relied upon to create the illegal body called CECPC talked about the power of NEC to create committees.<\/p>\n

\u201cMai Mala should choose between Yobe or APC. The combination of the two is no longer tenable\u201d, Marafa declared.<\/p>\n

Marafa reiterated his determination to institute legal actions to save the party from what he tagged, \u201cover ambitious Buni\u201d if he refuses to revert to his original assignment as chairman convention planning committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will show him the way out dishonourably. We will not allow the party we contributed immensely to develop to be destroyed by over-ambitious self-centred and enemies of the party, and the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the party we laboured, toiled and laid the foundation for its success. We will not allow those who have little or no stake in the party to destroy it or to please certain individuals and achieve their selfish interests,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Marafa, while insisting that he has committed no offence, said the party should revert to the path of constitutionality and rule of law or face extinction.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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