…Says APC Congresses, National Convention high on his priorities
The National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has washed off its palms from the criticism of negligence leveled towards it by a caucus of the party referred to as New-Peoples Democratic Party (n-PDP), stating that the protest by the caucus made to it was ill-timed and misdirected.
This is alleged to be the place of the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, at an assembly of party officers in Abuja shortly after the n-PDP fired its letter of protest on alleged ill-treatment of its members inside the ruling party.
As acknowledged by stories, the APC Chairman had advised party officers that he's in the meanwhile preoccupied with conduct of congresses of the party and planning for APC’s nationwide conference, and therefore has no time to take care of the memo by n-PDP.
It is just not probably that the Oyegun-led APC will take a motion to handle the problems raised within the n-PDP letter because the 7-day ultimatum the political bloc issued to APC ends tomorrow.
There are speculations, nonetheless, that the Abubakar Baraje and Chief Olagunsoye Oyinlola-led n-PDP will transfer out of APC en-bloc to hitch a new political party, as members are mentioned to have engaged in consultations with the PDP on points at stake.
Members of the n-PDP had wreaked the previous party in the course of the reign of former President Goodluck Jonathan after they moved out of the party to hitch the APC, an improvement which left a deep gap within the coronary heart of the PDP
The initiative by n-PDP to go away the outdated party was on the occasion of 5 state governors of Sokoto, Kano, Kwara, Adamawa and Rivers State, all joined by former governors of Kebbi, Gombe, Osun.
APC high pictures in separate chats with The Daily Times disclosed that the memo by n-PDP members can be reserved for the following National Officers of the party which is able to emerge in the course of the National Convention deliberate for the tip of June.
The 7-day ultimatum the n-PDP issued to APC in its letter of protest ends on Tuesday, as watchers of politics eagerly awaits its subsequent transfer.
The temper on the APC National Secretariat, based on members who spoke in confidence to a News Media a News Media correspondent, is that the n-PDP protest lacked substance, since its high members are in command of key positions within the current administration, whereas additionally holding the Senate Presidency.
The n-PDP in its four-page letter dated April 27, 2018, titled “Request for redressing of grievances of the former new PDP bloc within the All Progressives Congress,” had complained of being sidelined by the APC and had demanded a redress inside the subsequent 7 days.
n-PDP within the letter, argued that APC was capable of win the Presidency again in 2015 partly due to votes contributed by its members and therefore deserved a higher remedy from the APC.
The letter reads partially: “We the members of the APC who moved over from the PDP to kind the APC earlier than the 2015 General Electrons in Nigeria are desirous of strengthening our party, particularly now that new party Congresses have commenced and the Convention and one other spherical of General Elections are imminent.
“Obviously, this can't be achieved with out addressing elementary points, which we want to increase within the letter. We due to this fact want, with due respect, to re-state our expectation then and now that the APC all of us laboured to construct can be one united, inclusive, cohesive and progressive party devoid of divisions, factions, cleavages and tendencies.
“We envisioned a political party selling equal rights for all Nigerians and guaranteeing fast and even improvement throughout the nation.
“Of course, there is no gainsaying that the fact that the lofty ideals enumerated above cannot be attained without ensuring justice for party faithful and citizens”.
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