The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday night threatened to expel its member, Charles Enya, who filed a suit seeking the amendment of the constitution to allow President Muhammadu Buhari get another term in office.
President Buhari, at the APC National Executive Committee meeting held last Friday in Abuja, said he was not interested in tenure extension beyond 2023 which he noted would be a breach of the Nigerian constitution
But Enya, who served as organising secretary to Buhari during the 2019 general election, in a suit (FHC/AI/CS/90/19) filed before a Federal High Court in Abakaliki, the state capital, described the two-term tenure limit for presidents and governors as “discriminatory”.
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Enya is asking the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the National Assembly, to remove constitutional clauses hindering elected presidents and state governors from seeking a third term in office.
Defendants in the suit include the clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, and the AGF, Abubakar Malami.
But the APC National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Isa-Onilu, in a statement, described the third term project being instigated by one of its chieftains as anti-democratic and a distraction to its programme “on revamping our moribund infrastructure, growing the economy, fighting corruption, creating the right environment for our teeming youths to deploy their creative energies, and providing adequate security for all of our people.”
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