The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it will set up a registration appeal committee to consider complaints from members on the conduct of its ongoing membership registration, revalidation and update exercise.

Senator John Akpanudoedehe, National Secretary, APC Caretaker and Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), said this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja.

The committee which was granted a six month tenure extension last December was due to expire with the conduct of a National Convention to emplace a substantive National Working Committee of the party.

The body has however diverted from its core mandate, delving into membership registration and revalidation and dilly-dallying on the conclusion of the process with repeated extensions. 

The latest plot to set an appeals committee for the registration exercise could be seen as another plot to prolong the shelf life of the caretaker committee but such a move will readily cause an uproar among disgruntled members.

Already, The Nation has reported how state caretaker committees had rebuffed plans to extend the tenure of the interim committee.

But Mr Akpanudoedehe said that the decision was part of the resolutions reached at the committee’s ninth meeting, held at the party’s national secretariat.

He said that the meeting discussed the forthcoming Federal Capital Territory (FCT) area council elections and reviewed the committee’s activities in the last quarter.

He added that the meeting also evaluated the party’s ongoing membership registration, revalidation and update exercise across the federation and discussed its affairs.

The party’s interim scribe further added that the meeting reviewed the federal government’s interventions in security challenges in some parts of the country and commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his efforts at addressing the situation.

He particularly lauded the president for the counter- actions taken against the spate of insecurity across the country.

Mr Akpanudoedehe said that the meeting passed a vote of confidence on Buhari and urged leaders at all levels to show restraint in comments that would not unite the country in the face of insecurity.

“The meeting also commended the chairman of CECPC, Governor Mai Mala Buni, for his peaceful mien and dexterity, which have endeared high profile defections to APC,” he said.

Mr Akpanudoedehe said that the resolutions reached at the meeting were in line with the CECPC’s commitment to implementing all decisions of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), particularly the task of ensuring internal democracy, repositioning and rebuilding the party. 

(NAN)