The Deputy National Chairman (North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lawal Shuaibu, has insisted that the disciplinary panel set up by the National Working Committee (NWC) lacks the constitutional powers to probe him.
Shuaibu, who was reacting to the committee’s invitation, argued that powers to probe or discipline a member are vested in the executive committee at the party’s various levels.
“I don’t know from where the National Working Committee derived the powers of discipline. The APC Constitution in Article 21 states that such power shall only be exercised by the party through the respective executive committee of the party at all levels.
“I am not a lawyer, but I have been in the political party system for about a decade now to be able to know that every decision of the party shall be in line with what its constitution stipulates.”
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“Let me repeat as in my letter to the chairman, you can’t be a judge in your own case,” he added.
Recall that Shuaibu had in a May 28 letter accused the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, of running the party like a private fiefdom and imposing decisions on the party without recourse to the NWC.
In his letter, he called on Oshiomhole to resign.
However, the NWC at its meeting on Thursday raised the five-man committee chaired by Deputy National Chairman (South), Otunba Niyi Adebayo, to probe Shuaibu for instigating members of the National Assembly against the decision of the party on the choice of presiding officers.