AFC calls emergency meeting over vice chair fiasco

The Alliance For Change has summoned an emergency meeting for Sunday following the controversy at the Region Four elections where its candidate for Vice-Chair was rejected by its fellow APNU coalition members.

A statement from  the AFC follows:

Alliance For Change (AFC) notes allegations purporting that the Party is aligning itself with the PPP and categorically states; the AFC is engaged in no such discussions.

The Party remains committed to its principles of liberal democracy and the advancement of coalition politics as the best solution for our ethnically diverse country.

Following the election of Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Regional Democratic Council Region #4,  an emergency meeting of the Party’s National Executive Council has been scheduled for Sunday, October 4th to discuss the way forward. The NEC is the highest decision making forum of the Party in between  National Conference of the Party.