APC Installs Seven-Man Caretaker Committee To Oversee Benue Affairs

APC Installs Seven-Man Caretaker Committee To Oversee Benue Affairs

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted a seven-man Caretaker Committee for the Benue chapter of the party.

The caretaker Committee members are Hon. Benjamin Omale as Chairman; former Director General of Human Rights Commission and Prof. Ben Angwe as Secretary. Other members are Richard Mzungweve, James Orguga, Barr Terhemen Ngbea, Helen Agaigbe and Barr Ali Francis Adah.

This followed the dissolution of the Hon. Austin Agada-led State Working Committee by the NWC at its weekly meeting at the National Secretariat in Abuja.

The development came on the heels of a Benue High Court order stopping the NWC of the party from removing Agada-led Working Committee.

Inaugurating the Caretaker Committee, APC National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, directed it to unite the various factions of the party in the state, adding that they are saddled with the responsibility of conducting the forthcoming local election in the state.

Addressing the committee members, Ganduje said:”There are lots of problems we are having in the State. Factions and counter-factions; litigations, counter-litigations. These, the National Working Committee will not allow that to continue. The party is an institution, you must be united.

“So in order to solve the problem, we followed our Constitution and therefore the National Working Committee has today dissolved the Executive Committee and at the same time the National Working Committee has approved the constitution of a seven-man Caretaker Committee to run the affairs of the party for the next six months.

“Also, since you are going for local government election, and the party is the only organ that can certify candidature of any contestant, therefore you are saddled with the responsibility of conducting primaries for those who intend to become chairmen and councilors of their local government areas.

“We urge to unite, continue dialogue with major stakeholders so that we will bring all of you together so you work together.”

A copy of the order via an exparte order granted by Justice Theresa Igoche in motion no MH /1585m/2024 was made available to newsmen at the national secretariat of the party in Abuja on Wednesday
The court directed the Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) not to remove Hon. Austin Agada-led State Working Committee until the expiration of its four-year tenure.

The Benue chapter of the APC is split along Governor Hyacinth Alia, who is in support of Benjamin Omakolo-led faction and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation in support of the Agada-led working committee of the party.