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Aikhomu, Etiebet disagree on ANPP exco meeting
From Mohammed Abubakar, Abuja
R AYS of hope for the resolution of the crisis rocking the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) dimmed over the weekend.
Its Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairman, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu (rtd) and National Chairman, Chief Don Etiebet, have disagreed on the party's forthcoming National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting scheduled for Maiduguri, Borno State.
In a brief interview last night Aikhomu, who spoke from London on telephone, insisted that all meetings had to be put on hold until he comes back.
His words: "I am not in Nigeria at the moment, I am in London, I cannot say much on the meeting till I'm back."
He said he would be back before Christmas, adding: "What I am doing here is personal to my health. It is very important to me as a person."
On the fate of the meeting, Aikhomu said: "My advice is that the meeting be put off till I am back. I will be back before Christmas."
At the party's board of Trustees' meeting on Friday, October 22, 2004, a number of resolutions were reached. Among these was the re-scheduling of the joint BOT/NEC meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, from November 26 and 27 2004, to Abuja on November 29 and 30, 2004.
The meeting also barred the contending parties in the dispute from making any press statements on the issue, while resolving that the executive as at the January 7, 2003 convention of the party should prevail.
It was also resolved that the Board of Trustees should be responsible for resolving the crisis in the party.
However, Chief Etiebet was quoted two days later as insisting on the Maiduguri NEC meeting on November 26 and 27.
He argued that as the national chairman of the party, he was the person constitutionally recognised to summon a NEC meeting and "the Maiduguri meeting is the one I have sanctioned."`
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