The All Progressives Congress (APC) Cross River State chapter has suspended the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru. The Minister was suspended on Saturday by the State Working Committee (SWC) of the Party after he allegedly held several meetings with some members of the party with the intent of creating a parallel State Executive Council of the party.
The Minister's suspension was contained in a statement issued by a member of the SWC, Chief Godwin Takus. The statement read in part;
“State Working Committee (SWC) has suspended the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Pastor Usani Usani. The man has been going against most of the Party (APC) rules. He called illegal meetings with intention of forming parallel State Executive Committee (EXCO).
The Party severally called him and warned him but he did not listen. Last year, he appeared before the State Working Committee to explain his role in some of those meetings. He told us he doesn’t owe us any explanation and he was warned. He promised us that he will be of good character from that moment. But he keeps holding different meetings both here in the state and Abuja.
Recently, he tried to constitute a parallel EXCO against the one that has been in existence from the inception of the party, so we have no option than to suspend him and recommended for his expulsion from the party at the National level. That is just summary of all we did. We truly tried to manage the problems that associated with him since he left us as State Chairman.
Even his emergence as State Chairman was questionable. He came in by way of imposition to all of us but we thought he will be good and try to manage the affairs of the Party. But unfortunately, he didn’t. The opportunity we gave him, he refused to use it for the good of the Party. We suspended him to move the Party forward ahead for 2019 elections” he added
