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President Buhari Disagrees With APC Over Aggrieved Members Taking Cases To Court

President Muhammadu Buhari has openly disagreed with his All Progressives Congress (APC) on its stand that aggrieved members of the party, especially in the last party primaries across the country, should not go to court to challenge the party.

The President insisted that such aggrieved party members should be allowed freedom to seek redress in court if they so wish, stressing that anyone who is displeased with the way and manner anything has been done, and feels deprived of his/her rights, should be at liberty to approach the courts for redress.

President Buhari, who, in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, reacted specifically to the APC forbidding members from dragging the party to court, said: “we can’t deliberately deny people of their rights.

“We agreed that party primaries should be conducted either through direct, indirect or consensus methods, and if anyone feels unjustly treated in the process, such a person can go to court. The court should always be the last resort for the dissatisfied. For the party to outlaw the court process is not acceptable to me.”

The APC, had, in a decision by its National Working Committee (NWC) last week, threatened to punish members across the country who had dragged the party to court over various issues.

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In a statement the NWC had said: “the Party intends to activate constitutional provisions to penalise such members as their action is capable of undermining the Party and hurt the Party’s interest.

“We hereby strongly advise such members to withdraw all court cases, while approaching the appropriate party organs with a view to resolving any outstanding disputes. In addition to this, aggrieved members are urged to take full advantage of the reconciliation committees the Party has put in place.

“APC members should understand that as a progressive party that operates on the principle of change, it is not a matter of choice to keep to the rules.”

Meanwhile, President Buhari has advised members to work with the reconciliation committees empanelled for the six geo-political zones by the APC, and not a purported Presidential Committee on Reconciliation.

He made it clear that the Party is the only body authorized to constitute such committees.

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