The crisis rocking the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) seems to be deepening. This is even as the National Caucus of the party has approved the constitution of an Elders’ Council to replace the Board of Trustees (BoT).
The BoT model has been in use by many political parties in Nigeria.
BoT membership consists of top party members constitutionally-mandated to provided advice and counsel to the leadership of the National Working Committee and staff.
However, the APC’s decision to have an Elders’ Council may not be unconnected with the inability of the party to constitute a Board of Trustees for some years now.
The new council it was learnt will have 50 members.
The approval of the Elders’ Council was part of the decisions taken at the Caucus meeting of the party held at the Presidential villa on Monday night in Abuja.
It was also gathered that the criteria for selecting members of the Council is expected to be worked out before the National Convention scheduled for June.
