APC support groups urge Tinubu to intervene in Benue crisis

The Forum of All Progressives Congress (APC) Support Groups Leaders, on Thursday in Abuja, appealed to the party’s leadership and President Bola Tinubu to intervene and save democracy within the party’s Benue chapter.

Dr AK Peters, the forum’s Director-General, made the appeal during a news conference on the state of the APC in Benue.

He said the appeal had become necessary due to the ongoing crisis within the party in the state.

Peters also used the opportunity to pledge the forum’s support, loyalty, and commitment to the national leadership of the party and to the Tinubu-led government.

He described the APC’s support groups as its lifeblood and stressed their role in providing solutions, particularly during internal crises.

Peters recalled that the APC National Working Committee (NWC), acting on the authority of its National Executive Committee (NEC), had dissolved the Benue state executive and constituted a caretaker committee.

He lamented that the relative peace the committee had brought in February 2024 was short-lived.

This, he said, was due to the dissolved executive forwarding a list of candidates to the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC), challenging the party’s leadership.

Expressing disappointment with the actions of the former Benue APC chairman, Peters emphasised that party supremacy must be respected.

“We understand that the ongoing crisis in APC Benue arose from the NWC’s decision to change the leadership in the state,” he said.

Peters called on the national leadership of the party, including President Tinubu and National Chairman Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, to intervene immediately to prevent further threats to democracy in Benue.

He reaffirmed the forum’s support for the decision made at the recent NEC meeting, urging that it be respected by all party members.