By Nimake Earland
The appeal committee set up by the national headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to listen to complaints emanating from its congresses in Bauchi State on Monday prevented lawyers from participating in its sittings, citing issues relating to its sittings affairs.
The chairman of the committee, Alhaji Mohammed Mabo Kassim, disclosed this while addressing journalists in Bauchi on the commencement of the committee’s sittings in the state.
He explained that a lawyer was at the party secretariat on Monday with a petition but the committee told him to tell his client to appear personally before it.
This, according to the committee chairman, was because appeals and petitions within the party were family affairs that did not need third parties intervention.
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While calling on aggrieved party members to see themselves as members of one family, Kassim assured that his committee would carefully listen to all those that have grievances.
He, however, declared that the committee would assume there were no problems among members in Bauchi State if nobody submitted any petitions between Monday and Tuesday.
The chairman lamented that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ousted APC from power in the state during the last general election and passionately appealed to members to unite to change the situation in the next election in order for APC to regain power in the state.
