{"id":128576,"date":"2024-08-21T22:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc"},"modified":"2024-08-21T23:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:59:09","slug":"benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc","title":{"rendered":"Benue APC executives sacked by party\u2019s NWC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, sacked the leadership of the party in Benue State on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The NWC sacked the executives despite a Benue State High Court restraining the party from dissolving the Augustine Agada-led working committee.<\/p>\n<p>The national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, announced the dissolution and also inaugurated a seven-man caretaker committee at the party\u2019s national secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>The members of the caretaker committee are Benjamin Omale (chairman), Prof. Ben Angwe (secretary), Richard Mzungweve, James Omguga, Terhemen Ngbea, Helen Agaigbe, and Ali Adah.<\/p>\n<p>Ganduje stated: \u201cThe problem we are having in the state\u2014factions, counter-factions, litigations, counter-litigations\u2014these, the National Working Committee will not allow to continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, since you are going for local government election, and the party is the only organ that can certify the candidature of any contestant, therefore, you are saddled with the responsibility of conducting primaries for those who intend to become chairmen and councillors of their local government areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge you to unite and continue dialogue with major stakeholders so that we will bring all of you together so you can work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, sacked the leadership of the party in Benue State on Wednesday. The NWC sacked the executives despite a Benue State High Court restraining the party from dissolving the Augustine Agada-led working committee. The national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Ganduje, announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":128575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[9015,254],"class_list":["post-128576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-benue-apc","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benue APC executives sacked by party\u2019s NWC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, sacked the leadership of the party in Benue ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benue APC executives sacked by party\u2019s NWC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Working Committee, NWC, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, sacked the leadership of the party in Benue ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-21T21:54:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-21T22:59:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724268513.926392.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1086\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Benue APC executives sacked by party\u2019s NWC\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-21T21:54:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-21T22:59:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724268513.926392.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Benue APC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/benue-apc-executives-sacked-by-partys-nwc\",\"name\":\"Benue APC executives sacked by party\u2019s NWC - 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