CPC in Rowdy Session, Members Vent Anger On Leadership

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4 May 2011

CPC in Rowdy Session, Members Vent Anger On Leadership

The National Consultative Forum meeting of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Tuesday degenerated into hot exchange of words with many members in attendance expressing their disappointment over the performance of the party at the general election.

THISDAY gathered that a good number of the party members fell short of asking for a pound of flesh from the leadership for failing to guide the party to a good showing at the election.

At the Nugget Hotel, Abuja venue of the meeting, many of the party leaders from across the country called the national leadership of the party to question, blaming them for the party’s shoddy performance at the elections.

The meeting, which was called ostensibly to receive reports of various committees involved in the prosecution of the elections, later turned into an arena for “blame-game”, with the members engaging the leadership in exchange of words on issues bordering on the polls.

As part of the meeting’s agenda, the forum was to deliberate on the reports of the election monitoring committee and that of the Director-General of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

Among those who were present at the meeting were the party’s National Chairman, Prince Tony Momoh; the Deputy National Chairman, Alhaji Mustapha Salihu; CPC’s governor-elect for Nasarawa State, Alhaji Alma-Kura; National Secretary, Alhaji Buba Galadima; and the DG of the Campaign Organisation, Alhaji Sule Haman.

Although the national leader and the presidential candidate of the party, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was listed to attend the meeting, he had not arrived as at 5.30pm when the meeting broke-up for an interactive session.