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BOOM: Atiku Defends Buhari, Justifies Holding APC NEC Meeting Inside Aso Rock
Jun 30, 2020
Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi has absolved President Muhammadu Buhari of wrongdoing over the All Progressive Congress, APC, meeting held inside Aso Villa in Abuja.
Atiku Bagudu, Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi that the president did not violate any constitutional provision.
Buhari and the APC were criticized for holding a party meeting within the precinct of the presidential workplace.
But the governor stated that the constitution provided that whoever leads Nigeria must be a member of a political party before becoming the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He said it is the party that sponsors people “and has an obligation for anybody, who is a president, who contested on its platform. Hence belonging to a political party is not partisanship”.
Atiku pointed out that this was created by the qualifying section of the constitution, without which a president cannot contest the presidency or any political position.
“So, this partisanship, if belonging to a political party can be described as such, is constitutional as it is imposed upon us by the constitution,’’ he added.
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