How has the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress fared, one year after taking up the assignment? Adedayo Akinwale asks
After a long period of protracted internal crisis that nearly consumed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the party was constituted to save the party from itself. The constitution of the caretaker committee was well accepted and received by all the members of the party, who had expressed worry over the protracted leadership crisis that bedevilled the party during the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee (NWC).
The ruling party had during the emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa on June 25, 2020 dissolved the Oshiomhole-led NWC following a protracted leadership crisis and set up a committee to manage the affairs of the party in the interim. The 13-member caretaker committee, headed by the Yobe