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The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress has written a letter to its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is currently in the United Kingdom alleging that the candidate breached his agreement with the party when he unilaterally released the Presidential Campaign Council list without recourse to the national secretariat of the party.
In the letter signed by the party’s chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu queried why Tinubu breached their collective agreement.
Below is the full letter:
DRAFT
His Excellency Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
(Jagaban Borgu)
Presidential Candidate of the
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Presidential Campaign Office,
Herbert Macaulay Way,
Central Business District,
Abuja, FCT.
RELEASE OF THE TINUBU-SHETTIMA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL LIST
On behalf of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I present my compliments to Your Excellency, and have the honour to convey to you, in truth and respect, the Committee’s opinion and position, regarding the above-mentioned subject matter, with a view to having a clear understanding about the respective roles and responsibilities of the principal organs of the Party charged with the duties of conducting the campaigns in the forth-coming general elections.
This correspondence has become necessary in view of developments that took place over the last few days around the purported appointments into the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) that was announced precipitately by officials of the Council, without making a recourse to the NWC for approval. All along, the NWC had been disposed towards the campaign in a cooperative spirit that is driven by the overall interest of the Party and the singular desire of victory for our candidates, in the persons of your esteemed self and your running mate.
It is against this background that the NWC received with astonishment and regret, the press release by the PCC on 23rd September, 2022, in which a purported list of appointees was announced, which effectively served as the approved roster of participants in the Party’s Presidential Campaign Council. The purported list not only came as a complete surprise to the NWC and the Party’s leadership, but also contravened the principles and purposes of the arrangements that you and I had led towards the adoption of the Organogram of the PCC, and its principal officials.
Perhaps it has become necessary owing to the passage of time, that I should draw Your Excellency’s attention to the agreements that we reached in principle around the final adoption of the PCC list, based on the understanding that it was a work in progress, until such a time that the Joint NWC/PCC Committee that was established to formalise the structure and populate the list, submits its report.
Your Excellency will no doubt recall our meetings in my office and also at the NWC Conference Room at the Party’s National Secretariat, on Wednesday, 7th September, 2022, during which we discussed the details of the Organogram of the PCC and its composition, as a collaborative project between the two entities. Our recollection of those meetings clearly leaves us in no doubt that a breach of agreement has occurred, and that a return to the principles of cooperation and respect for each other is required.