Senator Kalu faults Comrade Oshiomhole on APC membership registration
Zamfara reporters February 13th, 2021
Senate Chief Whip and a former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has faulted the position of a former national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, who described the ongoing membership registration of the party as unconstitutional.
Kalu insisted that the exercise was in order.
The senator, who spoke with journalists after a tour of the facilities of Stanel World Group in Awka for the Stanel Youth Empowerment and Master Class, said it was not true that the APC constitution did not have a provision for membership revalidation.
He said, “There is nothing you do in the party that is unconstitutional. As long as the NEC of the party has taken a decision on any matter on behalf of the party, it becomes constitutional. The President, all the APC governors, legislators and officers of the party were all there when the decision was taken to amend the law and to revalidate membership of the party in all states of the country. So, it is valid as far as I am concerned.”
The Senator representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, Opeyemi Bamidele, and a former National Assembly member, Senator Ayo Arise, on Friday revalidated their membership of the APC and affirmed that that the ongoing registration exercise was in order.
Bamidele, who registered at his Iyin Ekiti hometown, said the exercise would boost the party’s chances ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Arise said the revalidation exercise would help to attract more people of means and influence into the APC.
Meanwhile, suspected hoodlums have attacked the venue of the ongoing membership registration and revalidation of the All Progressives Congress at Ajalli in Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State.
They reportedly inflicted injuries on some party supporters as well as members of the party’s Registration and Revalidation Committee for the local government.
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