From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Supporters Forum has pleaded with President Bola Tinubu and the National Chairman of the ruling party, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, to urgently intervene in the crisis rocking the Benue State chapter of the party.
The party supporters made the appeal while addressing newsmen at its national secretariat in Abuja, expressing disappointment that the former state chairman went to court to challenge the party, contrary to the party’s constitution.
The supporters expressed anger that the national leadership could watch the former state chairman’s failure to exhaust all internal mechanisms to resolve the issue before heading to court.
Making the requests, the forum noted: “We strongly call on the national leadership of the party, President Tinubu and Abdullahi Umar Gandje to immediately wade into the pending danger and threat to democracy in Benue State. We strongly observe that the Benue State Chief Judge is being used by the opposition not only to frustrate our performing government in Benue State but also a direct attack on our amiable President Tinubu ahead of 2027 general elections.
“Therefore, our party leadership and the presidency must take a stand now before some anti-democratic forces and enemies of our party hijack the ongoing evil plot. We stand by the decision of the party and the confidence reposed on Mr. President and our National Chairman at the just concluded National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of our party. We insist that Mr. President must save democracy as the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC) and NEC must be respected by all party faithful,” the forum’s Director-General, A. K. Peters, noted.
“We are here to take a position in support of our party national leadership and reaffirm our loyalty and commitment to the government of President Tinubu while addressing the political crisis rocking our party in Benue State. We understand that the ongoing crisis in Benue is as a result of the decision of the NWC acting on the powers of NEC which changed the leadership of the party in Benue State and the party must wade into defend its decision by maintaining party supremacy as enshrined in our constitution,” the forum appealed.