This is coming as the Patrick Obahiagbon-led committee begins sitting and revealed that it was yet to receive any petition after the congress held on Saturday October 16, 2021.

Announcing that it would begin sitting as from 10 a.m. on Tuesday, October 26, the chairman of the committee promised to hold on for 48 hours before concluding that there was no petition.

The committee set up by the Mai Buni-led National Caretaker Committee is made up of five members led by  Obahiagbon.

The five-man committee is to receive and address petitions from aggrieved members of the party over the recent state congresses, in order to ensure equity, justice and guarantee integrity of the congress.

The members of the appeal committee include Patrick Obahiagbon as chairman and Barrister C.J Chiwuba as Secretary.

Others are Muazu Bawa Rajua, Mr. Aboge-Isaac Felix and Jubrin Akowe as members.

Obahiagbon, while speaking at a press briefing held at the APC secretariat in Abeokuta on Monday, said the committee would only wait for 48 hours and if there was no petitions, would submit its reports as such.

He emphasised that the committee would begin sitting at the Conference Hotel, Abeokuta, by 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday to receive petitions from members who were dissatisfied with the outcome of the congress.

“It is to be noted that in all cases where party congresses had taken place, Appeal Committees, have been subsequently empowered by the Caretaker Extra Ordinary and Convention Planning Committee of the APC, in line with our party’s constitution, to review the congresses with a view to ensuring justice, equity, fair play and guaranteeing the integrity of the entire process,” Obahiagbon said.

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“We don’t want any internal or external enemies,” the movement’s main spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said.

Mujahid said women would be allowed to work and study and “will be very active in society but within the framework of Islam.”

Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh meanwhile said he was in the country and declared himself the “legitimate caretaker president” and that he would not bow to Kabul’s new rulers.

The Taliban news conference came as the United States and Western allies evacuated diplomats and civilians the day after scenes of chaos at Kabul airport as Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban thronged to the terminal.

As they rush to evacuate diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan, foreign powers are assessing how to respond to changed situation on the ground.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the Taliban should allow all those who wanted to leave the country to depart, adding that NATO’s aim was to help build a viable state in Afghanistan.

There has been widespread criticism of the U.S. withdrawal amid the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said “the images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West.”

Under a U.S. troops withdrawal pact struck last year, the Taliban agreed not to attack foreign forces as they leave.

FLIGHTS RESUME

U.S. military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan restarted on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands desperate to flee following the Taliban’s sudden takeover of the capital.

U.S. forces took charge of the airport – their only way to fly out of Afghanistan – on Sunday, as the militants wound up a week of rapid advances by taking over Kabul without a fight, 20 years after they were ousted by a U.S.-led invasion.

The number of civilians had thinned out, a Western security official at the airport told Reuters, a day after chaotic scenes in which U.S. troops fired to disperse crowds and people clung to a U.S. military transport plane as it taxied for take-off.

At least 12 military flights had taken off, a diplomat at the airport said.

Planes were due to arrive from countries including Australia and Poland to pick up their nationals and Afghan colleagues.

President Joe Biden said he had to decide between asking U.S. forces to fight endlessly or follow through on a withdrawal agreement negotiated by his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump.

“I stand squarely behind my decision,” Biden said. “After 20 years I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”

Facing criticism from even his own diplomats, he blamed the Taliban’s takeover on Afghan political leaders who fled and its army’s unwillingness to fight.

Source: Reuters

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