Although some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress,
APC have initiated moves to reconcile the aggrieved camps and bring back peace
in the party, its national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not yielding to it
until his conditions are met.
Vanguard exclusively gathered yesterday that Tinubu who felt
greatly slighted by the elections of Senator Bukola Saraki and Rep. Yakubu
Dogara as the senate president and the Speaker, House of Representatives
respectively against the party’s official candidates, Senator Ahmed Lawan and
Femi Gbajabimila had said of what can assuage his anger and that of the party.
A competent party source told Vanguard in Abuja that
principal among the conditions is that both Saraki and Dogara must tender and
publish a full page apology publicly using the national dailies.
To this end, the source hinted that an extended meeting of
the national leaders of the party with APC governors involved had been slated
for next week.
The meeting, it was learnt, would hold either Monday or
Tuesday.
“You don’t joke with the man (Tinubu). He said they must
make a public apology to him using the newspapers. A meeting that will involve
all APC governors has been scheduled to hold either on Monday or Tuesday. Wait
and see what will happen. They have to do it”, the source said.
It was not ascertained whether president Mohmmadu Buhari
would be at the meeting but Saraki and Dogara are expected to be at the
meeting. It will be recalled that after the National Assembly
leadership that brought Saraki and Dogara as the new leaders of the 8th
assembly, tempers have continued to flare up in the party.
Upon their elections on June 9, APC immediately issued a
statement where it declared the outcome of the elections unacceptable and also
threatened sanctions for the new leaders.
The threat however divided the party with some of the
national leaders frowning at the decision. One of the them was the deputy national publicity secretary,
comrade Timi Frank who also called for the resignation of the party’s national
chairman, chief John Oyegun on the grounds of his failure to harmonize the
variegated interests that later cost the party the office of the Deputy Senate
President, DSP.
According to Frank, Oyegun compromised to have agreed to
conduct the mock election that threw up Lawan and Gbajabimila as official
candidates of the party.
Meanwhile, national chairman of the party, Oyegun has
assured Nigerians that peace was underway in the party.
Rising from the meeting of the National Working Committee,
NWC which held at party’s national secretariat in Abuja yesterday, the chairman
said that the party had reached out to all aggrieved parties, stressing that
Nigerians would see a united APC by next week.
He also marshalled out defence for the party’s national
publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who he said had been misunderstood in
some quarters while discharging his responsibilities.
Source
Vanguard
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