By Edward Vamboi
Following a ruling, dated the 19th of April 2021, by Justice Adrian Fisher, to wit an appeal was filed and rejected by the same judge, custodians in the likes of M. L . Bangura, Dr. Abdulai O. Conteh, D. F. Shears, Eddie Turay, Madam Mabinty S. A. T. Koroma and others are set to rescue the party.
In a close door meeting with senior stakeholders of the Party, it is now clear that the above names mentioned will be having an emergency meeting to set up an interim body that will take the party to the two activities the court had granted them to take up before the hearing of the substantive matter. According to some of the stakeholders, they are convinced that the party can no longer be left in the hands of the current leadership for the fact that under their dispensation there had been many scuffles within and among members of the party. This to them does not send a good picture about their party.
Rumors had it that, in the weeks to come, massive changes are set to take place in the APC party considering the expediency of time to prepare for the next 2022/2023 elections. The leadership of the party and some members had been in court for almost three years now with no way forward. The refusal of the court on the 28th May 2021 against the appeal filed by the de-facto leadership of the party is a clear manifestation that members of the party must now come to terms with the realities that the party needs an urgent solution to map the way forward.
An agreement had been reached by senior stakeholders, who are also first generation members of the party to strictly follow court orders and set date for the next convention and adoption of the constitution.
It is not a novelty that the de-facto leadership has been the very reason why members of the party had been taking the party to court, just as it is also true that this is not the first time the party is going into an election with an interim body.
So to them, it is obvious that they step up hard and rescue the party from collapsing. New faces are set to take the party for its all talked about convention and adoption of the amended constitution.
More details shall be made available to the public as plans unfold to address the current shortfalls of the party.
