{"id":20845,"date":"2018-11-26T22:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T22:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20845"},"modified":"2018-11-27T19:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T19:09:29","slug":"you-cant-stop-aggrieve-apc-members-from-seeking-redress-in-law-courts-buhari-tells-apc-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=20845","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Stop Aggrieved APC Members from Seeking Redress in Law Courts&#8221;, Buhari Tells APC Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.newsroom247.com.ng --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday disagreed with the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on how party members should address their grievances.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President believes the court is the last option for aggrieved members to seek redress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t deliberately deny people of their rights,\u201d he said one week after the APC National Working Committee (NWC) warned members to withdraw all court cases or risk being sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday last week, the NWC described the growing trend of cases filed by members as \u2018manifest indiscipline\u2019, following the party primaries held across the country.<\/p>\n<p>It stressed that the APC considered such action as an anti-party activity and advised aggrieved members to explore the party\u2019s dispute resolution mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari, however, insisted that if anyone was displeased with the way and manner anything has been done and felt deprived of his\/her rights, then such a person was at liberty to approach the courts for redress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agreed that party primaries should be conducted either through direct, indirect or consensus methods, and if anyone feels unjustly treated in the process, such a person can go to court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court should always be the last resort for the dissatisfied. For the party to outlaw the court process is not acceptable to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the President advised members to work with the reconciliation committees empanelled for the six geo-political zones by the APC.<\/p>\n<p>He also faulted the claims that they were presidential committees on reconciliation, stressing that the APC was the only body authorised to constitute such committees.<\/p>\n<p>Following the warning issued to the aggrieved members, the APC had set up National Peace and Reconciliation committees chaired by six governors.<\/p>\n<p>They are Abdullahi Ganduje (South East committee), Kashim Shettima (South West committee), Rauf Aregbesola (South-South committee), Abiola Ajimobi (North West committee), Ibrahim Geidam (North Central committee), and Tanko Al-Makura (North East committee).<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=17323&amp;ad_type=64&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday disagreed with the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on how party members should address their grievances. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President believes the court is the last option for aggrieved members to seek redress. \u201cWe can\u2019t deliberately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[737,154],"class_list":["post-20845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-femi-adesina","tag-muhammadu-buhari"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/buhari-buy-1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5qd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20853,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20845\/revisions\/20853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}