Reports coming out of Cross River State has it that the State Working Committee, SWC, of All Progressive
Congress, APC, in Cross River State has suspended the Minister of Niger Delta
Affairs, Usani Uguru Usani.
This was made known by a member
of the SWC, Godwin Takus, on Sunday.
He said: “State Working Committee
(SWC) has suspended the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Pastor Usani Usani. The
man has been going against most of the Party (APC) rules. He called illegal
meetings with intention of forming parallel State Executive Committee (EXCO).
“The Party severally called him
and warned him but he did not listen. Last year, he appeared before the State
Working Committee to explain his role in some of those meetings.
“He told us he doesn’t owe us any
explanation and he was warned. He promised us that he will be of good character
from that moment. But he keeps holding different meetings both here in the
state and Abuja.
“Recently, he tried to constitute
a parallel EXCO against the one that has been in existence from the inception
of the party, so we have no option than to suspend him and recommended for his
expulsion from the party at the National level.
“That is
just summary of all we did. We truly tried to manage the problems that
associated with him since he left us as State Chairman.
“Even his emergence as State
Chairman was questionable. He came in by way of an imposition to all of us but
we thought he will be good and try to manage the affairs of the Party.
“However, unfortunately, he
didn’t. The opportunity we gave him, he refused to use it for the good of the
Party. We suspended him to move the Party forward ahead of 2019 elections” he
stated.
Speaking further on the chances
of the APC winning the forthcoming elections, Chief Takus said, “We just have
to win the election in Cross River State and (he) Usani has been a cloak in the
wheel of progress of the Party in the State.
“Almost everybody in the Party in
the State will tell you that the man is a major problem and because of him, the
Party was not moving forward. We have condoned him enough”.
On the issue of substantive
Chairman, he said “You know the National (leadership) arranged to have a
Congress on November 29, 2017, but somebody came up and gone to court and stop
the Party from doing congress for reason best known to him.
“As
a law-abiding party, we had to stop the Congress and listen to the man’s
grievances. But if the matter is not resolved at the proper time, that Congress
and convention will come up and we will certainly have a substantive State
Chairman. The State Caucus will be inaugurated between now and February.”
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