Leadership (Abuja)
Chuks Ohuegbe
18 January 2008
National executive committee of the National Democratic Party (NDP) yesterday suspended its Board of Trustees (BOT) chairman, Alhaji Aliyu Habu Fari and the national chairman, Prince Chudi Chukwuani for their alleged involvement in the crisis engulfing the party.
The NEC also endorsed the setting up of a panel of inquiry into the immediate and remote cause(s) of the crisis.
Another highpoint of the NEC meeting that held in Abuja was its recognition of Prince Kassim Afegbua as the acting national chairman of the party, pending the convening of its national convention in April.
The communiqué read in part; in order to nip the festering crisis of the party in the bud and to avoid further embarrassment, the party has set up a panel of inquiry into the immediate and remote cause(s) of the crisis.
"The committee is given two months to submit its report during which time Alhaji Aliyu Habu Fari and Prince Chudi Chukwuani would stand suspended from the party to enable the panel carry out its assignment without let or hindrances.
"The NEC reaffirmed the earlier mandate given to Prince Kassim Afegbua by NEC of January 17, 2007, to act as national chairman leading to the conduct of the national convention in April 2008.
"The NEC resolved that, both Prince Chudi Chukwuani and Alhaji Aliyu Habu Fari should stop parading themselves as executives of the party since NEC did not give them any mandate to that effect".
The crisis rocking the party emanated from the alleged re-location of the national headquarters of the party from Wuse II, Abuja, where it occupied a duplex to a shopping complex without the endorsement of the party's NEC.
The party's office was thereafter occupied by a micro-finance bank, which Alhaji Habu Fari is believed to have vested interest in.
Consequently, Prince Kassim Afegbua lodged a complaint with the police that led to the quizzing of the national chairman, Prince Chukwuani ad the manager of the said micro-finance bank.
The party's NEC also advised yesterday that the landlord and the present occupants of the party's headquarters immediately vacate the said property since the party remains the bonafide occupant
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