Sentences with phrase «nec meeting»

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As Woolasgate rages, Uncut understands that the NEC meeting on 30 November will see Ken Livingstone stage an audacious bid to get Lutfur Rahman reinstated to the party.

«My colleagues from the NWC (National Working Committee), we have a voice raised on our behalf during the caucus meeting and I want to assure you that as quickly as possible we will have a welfare package before the next NEC meeting so that our welfare can be better catered for.

Just as the president entered the NEC meeting Hall, the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun called the house to order while the meeting immediately went into a closed session.

Buhari had told the party at its last NEC meeting that it would be unconstitutional to elongate the tenure of Odigie - Oyegun and other officers of the party whose tenure would expire in June this year.

The borough is run by a clique of Islamists and businessmen with the support of the extreme left who are still calling for the Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, to be readmitted to the Labour Party after he was removed as Labour candidate when it was proved at an NEC meeting that he had packed Labour Party membership lists with fake members.

High profile NPP bigwigs who attended Thursday's crunch NEC meeting were the party's two times Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Ado and his trusted twice running mate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia and former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

At the NEC meeting, MP Ian Lavery, the party's election coordinator, gave a presentation about the party's local election campaign effort, saying the slogan would be: «Standing up for you.»

There were discussions on the subject during Tuesday's NEC meeting, but a decision has been delayed and may well be kicked into the long grass given Corbyn's new mandate.

Corbyn objected at the NEC meeting on Tuesday on the grounds that the posts would not be elected by members.

She said it was quite clear that there was suspicion by some NEC members of an attempt to «stitch up» Mr Corbyn at the NEC meeting to prevent him being able to stand for election.

I turned up to the NEC meeting with letter in hand fully intending to carry that through.

Ojougboh stated, «We are progressing with the plan to hold the convention, even though we have postponed the NEC meeting because we are meeting with our lawyers over the case which comes up at the Supreme Court on Thursday.

Background Mr Afoko, who was elected the NPP National Chairman in April 2014, was suspended indefinitely at an emergency NEC meeting at the party's headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra on Friday, October 23, 2015.

Failed quorum The source also pointed out that the NEC meeting did not have a quorum as important personalities such as the party's flag - bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo; former President J A Kufuor, the National Chairman himself, the General Secretary, Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong; Second Vice Chairman, Mr Sammy Crabbe, and the Women's Organiser, Madam Otiko Djaba, were all not at the said meeting.

«If the party goes back to what we all know that every month, we hold NEC meeting, you have caucus, they will stop all these «spirit» and no «spirit» thing.

Our correspondent learnt that the party was still consulting on when the NEC meeting would hold.

«We regret that Tom Watson also forced through the decision yesterday at Labour's NEC meeting to challenge the court judgement to restore the right to vote in the leadership election.

Nonetheless if Mr Watson believes he has a chance of success, the measures will be put to a formal NEC meeting later this month ahead of a crunch vote at the party conference in Liverpool, which starts on September 25.

On the outcome of the NEC meeting, Falae said the party looked for ways of restructuring its organs in order to accommodate the high - profile politicians who are joining the party.

SUNDAY PUNCH also learnt that a series of meetings were being held at various locations across Abuja ahead of Monday's NEC meeting.

According to Sammy Crabbe, the meeting which suspended him «was not a NEC meeting and that is not a National Council meeting» because it was chaired by the acting National Chairman.

The state chairmen and other officials, who are members of the National Executive Committee, started arriving in Abuja on Friday evening ahead of Monday's NEC meeting.

With reports of Angela Eagle's constituency office having been attacked last night, barriers being erected around the venue for the NEC meeting and lawyers sharpening their pencils this looks like being a long, hot, loveless summer for Labour.

That decision will be perfected on Monday (tomorrow) at the NEC meeting.»

At the NEC meeting held on the 3rd of December, 2015, the General Secretary solicited the views and response of members of NEC on this accusation of Misrepresenting / misleading of NEC on status of some constituency primaries which came from the Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Hon. KT Hammond, who was also present in the meeting.

It is useful to recall that at the NEC meeting held on August 18, 2015 when the decision was taken on the primaries in Adansi Asokwa, it was both the Ashanti Regional Chairman and the 3rd National Vice Chairman, whose views persuaded the NEC to overturn the National Appeals Committee decision to disqualify aspirant Mr. Richard Anokye and uphold the earlier regional vetting committee decision to allow him to contest in the parliamentary primaries.

He insisted that «if you have a First Vice Chairman convening a NEC meeting or a National Council meeting then that is not an acceptable meeting.»

If all goes well and they are elected as MPs on 7 May, this will have been their last NEC meeting.

Corbyn's victory, which means he has now won more Labour leadership elections than Tony Blair, and two more than Gordon Brown, was widely expected from the beginning of the contest, with Labour's self - styled «moderates» seemingly reliant on keeping Corbyn off the ballot paper, something they failed to do in July's NEC meeting.

Recall that Buhari had at NEC meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, last Monday before heading to London announced his intention to seek re-election in the 2019 presidential election, stating that he was responding to the clamour by Nigerians to seek a second term.

The Chairman of the APC in Bayelsa State, Mr. Joseph Fafi, on Thursday confirmed receipt of an invitation to the NEC meeting of the party scheduled for April 9, in Abuja.

In the document addressed to the party's National Chairman and the Deputy National Chairman (North) Senator Lawal Shuaibu, the petitioners said, «We write to express our sadness and total dissatisfaction with the way the National Secretary of our great party (Mai Mala Buni) handled the process for the replacement of the vacant position of the National Vice-Chairman (North - East), which was zoned to Adamawa State at the APC National Convention in 2014 and was declared vacant at the last NEC meeting.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, told one of our correspondents that the NEC meeting scheduled for Monday would hold despite rumours making the rounds that it might be shifted.

The PUNCH reported on Tuesday that the governors began the campaign for the endorsement of Buhari before the commencement of the NEC meeting.

He was invited to the last NEC meeting but he did not attend.»

However, even before today's NEC meeting, some groups like the Ashanti Youth Association, Young Executives Forum of NPP, Ashanti Market Women Association and other pro-NPP groups warned the party to back off the decision to suspend Kwabena Agyapong or risk disintegrating the party ahead of the 2016 elections.

«The SDP NEC meeting debated the electoral alliance proposal thoroughly and finally gave overwhelming approval for the electoral alliance with PDP,» the party said.

On reapplying I was told the membership was suspended pending my appearance at the NEC meeting.

NPP's First Vice Chairman Freddy Blay had convened the emergency NEC meeting to among others, consider report of the National Disciplinary Committee of the NPP recommending a disciplinary action against the party's National Chairman, Paul Afoko.

Contributing to the discussion, senior journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, said if Mr. wants to test whether he is still in charge as NPP Chairman, he should call a National Council meeting, a Steering Committee meeting or a NEC meeting and see if anybody will turn up.

Addressing State House correspondents, after Thursday's NEC meeting, Minister of Agriculture Chief Audu Ogbeh, who was joined by the Governor of Ebonyi David Umahi, Governor of Jigawa, Abubakar Badaru and the deputy governor of Lagos state, said the government can no longer continue to allow the ECOWAS Protocol that permits free movement of goods and services in respect of Cattles at the detriment of its citizenry.

The state governors through Chairman of Nigeria's Governors Forum, Abdulazeez Yari at NEC meeting chaired by Prof Osinbajo accused NNPC of spending outrageous money on subsidy.

The Working Group was set up at the last NEC meeting in accordance with the President's commitment to bring all perpetrators of violence to book.

Ed Miliband recalled that at his first NEC meeting he stated his determination that Labour would be a one - term opposition, and we were now in a position to achieve this.

«The NEC meeting has concluded.

Makarfi stated, the «APC is even afraid of holding NEC meeting not to talk of national convention.

«All I can tell you is that there is a meeting which is routine and the caucus meeting is determined to set up an agenda of the NEC meeting tomorrow.

Earlier in the morning, Dokpesi and some members of the party had gathered at what they called NEC meeting and pronounced the interim committee under Shittu leadership, sacked.

Party sources said that a deal was thrashed out before the NEC meeting, which has enabled Corbyn to gain more influence over the party machine without driving his critics out.