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Sunday, November 28 2004 Search : Vol 13 No.44

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News ANPP in tatters •Rival factions trade threats NDIDI OKAFOR, Deputy Political Editor (in Maiduguri) GOV. Attahiru Bafarawa is among three top notchers of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) who were threatened yesterday with suspension as the crisis within the party deepened. Sounding the suspension threat, embattled National Chairman, Chief Don Etiebet presiding over a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Maiduguri, Borno State, named Lt-Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd) and Maj. Gen. Bashir Magashi as the "offenders." But Bafarawa and Useni presided at rival NEC meeting in Abuja simultaneously insisting on the ouster of Etiebet. The two factions of the party each made good their earlier threats to hold parallel NEC meetings as they jostled for supremacy of the country’s second biggest political party. In Maiduguri, Chief Etiebet told newsmen that suspensions may be slammed on the Deputy National Chairman (North), Gen. Useni, Governor Bafarawa and on the National Legal Adviser, Gen. Magashi. He cited "their continued absence from properly constituted meetings of the organs of the party especially, its National Executive Committee (NEC). Fielding questions from journalists on the goings on in the party and the parallel NEC meeting chaired by Gen. Useni in Abuja, he said to be sponsored by Governor Bafarawa. Reading the riot act to the "absentees" Etiebet reminded them of the party’s constitutional provision which says that, "any member of the organ of the party who absent himself or herself consecutively for three times, stands to be sanctioned by either suspension or expulsion." He said that six governors, those of Borno, Kebbi, Jigawa, Kano, Yobe and Zamfara were present at the Maiduguri NEC meeting while that of Sokoto, Bafarawa was absent. He also said that the National Legal Adviser of the party, "Maj-Gen. Bashir Magashi who belongs to the complaining group "is also absent noting that penalty which is either suspension or expulsion awaits the absentees. "The party will take proper steps to deal with the absentees," in accordance with the party’s constitution," he said. He acknowledged that there is crisis in the party which began on September 8, 2004 but efforts have been made to resolve it and those that are anti-peace would eventually lose out. He said that despite the claimed dissolution of the Gov. Buka Abba Ibrahim Reconciliation Committee by Useni, that committee is still intact and will be reinforced at our NEC here in Maiduguri."

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