{"id":26646,"date":"2020-06-25T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26646"},"modified":"2020-06-25T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T14:52:08","slug":"why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay","title":{"rendered":"Why Buhari should not attend Giadom\u2019s NEC meeting \u2013 Prof. Sagay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s acceptance of an emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting summoned by embattled Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Victor Giadom.<\/p>\n<p>Sagay appealed to Buhari not to attend the NEC meeting scheduled for Thursday (today).<\/p>\n<p>Giadom had called for a NEC meeting in resolving the leadership crisis currently rocking the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Against this backdrop, Buhari had said the law backs Giadom to replace Adams Oshiomhole as National Chairman of the party.<\/p>\n<p>This followed Giadom\u2019s decision that he was Oshiomhole\u2019s replacement after being suspended by an Appeal Court.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sagay stressed that Giadom lacked the power to summon a NEC meeting because a deputy national secretary was not in line to succeed the party\u2019s national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Sagay told the Nation: \u201cI\u2019m stunned by this turn of events. How can a deputy national secretary have the ambition to be the chairman of a party when you have deputy chairmen and vice-chairmen?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why it is absurd. It does not make sense. His position makes it impossible for him to be the acting national chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legal advice the President got is mischievous in the extreme because there is no court order to extend since it does not exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s acceptance of an emergency National Executive Council, NEC, meeting summoned by embattled Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Victor Giadom. Sagay appealed to Buhari not to attend the NEC meeting scheduled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,667],"class_list":["post-26646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-nec"],"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>Why Buhari should not attend Giadom\u2019s NEC meeting \u2013 Prof. Sagay - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has reacted to President\" \/>\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\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Buhari should not attend Giadom\u2019s NEC meeting \u2013 Prof. Sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) has reacted to President\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-25T14:52:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1140\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Why Buhari should not attend Giadom\u2019s NEC meeting \u2013 Prof. Sagay\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-25T14:52:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/muhammed-buhari-1140x570-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"NEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/why-buhari-should-not-attend-giadoms-nec-meeting-prof-sagay\",\"name\":\"Why Buhari should not attend Giadom\u2019s NEC meeting \u2013 Prof. Sagay - 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