APC Shuns INEC, Vows To Hold National Convention On March 26

The Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to go ahead with the March 26 National Convention.

It insisted it had notified the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of its intention hold the exercise.

The party said there was no need for a fresh 21-day notice as demanded by INEC for the exercise in a letter.

This was revealed by the spokesperson for the CECPC and APC National Youth Leader, Barr. Ismail Ahmed, who stated these on Friday in Abuja.

He dismissed the INEC letter insisting on a fresh 21-day notice for the National Convention to follow due process.

Ahmed argued that having intimated INEC of its intent to conduct its national convention on February 26, which was moved to March 26, what is required is simply a notice of adjustment and not a fresh 21-day notice.

According to him, “Convention will hold on the 26th of March. I am not only a youth leader or internal spokesperson, I am also a lawyer. And we have served a notice to INEC for the 26th of February earlier.

” We served that notice on the 5th of February and that was the required 21 days. If you are going to make any adjustment to that date all you need is a letter, making an adjustment to the date.

“You don’t need another 21 days and that letter was since written about two weeks ago when we realised that we couldn’t hold it on the 26th of February.

“The moment, the CECPC agreed on the 26th of March, that letter was written to INEC, INEC has accepted that letter. So that is long gone is not an issue.”

“The issue of the date of convention is not in question, not in INEC, not certainly with us. That is settled.

“It is sacrosanct that 26th of March and we have comply with all the rules and we have notified INEC as appropriately expected for us to do that. So that’s no longer an issue.”