‘No rift in APC’
By Bolaji Ogundele, Abuja
The forum of state chairmen of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is not at loggerheads with the party’s national leadership.
There had been reports of alleged unfriendly correspondence between the national secretariat of the APC and the state chairmen over some issues the chairmen reportedly demand actions on.
Speaking on phone yesterday with our correspondent in Abuja, Delta State APC Chairman, Prophet Jones Erue, said the media had taken the issue of the correspondence between the forum and the national secretariat of the party out of context.
He said: “Some people were trying to cash in on our requests to cause a crisis in the party. But that was not what our intensions were. However, we will address the press on it later.
“There’s nothing like we drawing the battle lines with the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party. We made requests and the requests are being addressed. There is no war; there’s nothing like that.
“It is like this: when you have a problem with someone, like a fight, your enemy will want to seize that opportunity to hit you from behind. It’s not the person you are actually fighting that is hitting you now.”
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, who reacted to a similar situation raised by the non-National Working Committee (nNWC) at the weekend, had debunked rumours of a crisis between the national leadership of the party and the chairmen’s forum.
He said: “I don’t think that they meant that we have usurped, in that sense. By not having meetings, they may think since there’s no NEC meeting, whatever NEC ought to do is not being done, except they point to a particular action we have taken that was beyond our powers. Otherwise, what I understand them to mean is that since NEC has not held, whatever they are supposed to do cannot be done and NWC cannot take the position of the NEC. That’s what I understand from their communique.”
Read Also: How far can APC, PDP running mates go in Bayelsa?
“For the BoT, it is not the NEC that elects the BoT, but I am also sure that anytime the NEC meets, issues like that will be addressed. Even for the filling of vacant offices, it is not the NWC that will fill those vacancies. They have been zones to geopolitical zones and they also have micro-zone to certain states so the procedure is supposed to be from there and we cannot speak for them. We hope that they are already taking actions, we hope we will know very soon,” he said.
Also, reacting to the feeling by some observers that the APC might not last beyond 2023 because of the many internal crises bugging it, the chairman of the party in Delta State said contrary to such feelings, the party had the internal mechanism to sort matters out.
According to him, the myriad of crises being witnessed have been occasioned by the determination of its leaders to make a reformed political party out of the APC, a process he said does not come easy.
“APC has internal mechanisms to resolve such conflicts as you are talking about and that’s what the chairmen are doing. I am on my way to Bayelsa, leading a delegation of chairmen to the state, which means we know what we are doing. The party will come out very strongly.
“You should know that reformation is not a tea party. When someone comes out to say I want a reformed party, a party that meets international known standards, such like those ones formed by the Chief Obafemi Awolowo of this world; the Action Group, the UPN, a party that commands authority and has supremacy, a party that can fund itself. When a party is like that, no individual leader can claim ownership of it,” Erue said.
Exposed!! Popular Abuja doctor revealed how men can naturally and permanently cure poor erection, quick ejaculation, small and shameful manhood without side effects. Even if you are hypertensive or diabetic . Stop the use of hard drugs for sex!! It kills!
Elevated blood pressure is not a death sentence. Take control with our proven herbal remedies, break free from high blood pressure, and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. CLICK NOW
Advertisement