The All
Progressives Congress (APC) National caucus has approved the constitution of an
Elders’ Council to replace the Board of Trustees (BoT).
The BoT model has been in use by
many political parties in Nigeria.
It consists
of top party members constitutionally-mandated to provided advice and counsel
to the leadership of the National Working Committee and staff.
But the APC’s decision to have an
Elders’ Council may not be unconnected with the inability of the party to
constitute a Board of Trustees over thy years.
It was gathered that the new
council will have 50 members.
The approval
of the Elders’ Council was part of the decisions taken at the Caucus meeting of
the party held at the Presidential villa on Monday night.
Modalities for selecting members of the Council is expected to
be worked out before the National Convention scheduled for June.
The APC has witnessed some developments this week alone.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday declared as
illegal the tenure elongation of national and state executives.
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