The leadership of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), has described as genuine, the grievances of the
new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faction.
The faction had given a seven-day
ultimatum to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari after accusing the ruling
party of being unfair to its members.
Speaking with journalists on
Monday after meeting with Kawu Baraje, leader of the faction, at the APC
national secretariat in Abuja, Lawal Shuaibu, deputy chairman (north), promised
that the party would look into issued raised by the group.
He said the APC would not ignore
its people.
“We have not yet resolved the
issue. They wrote a letter to us, they are party men. They have grievances, we
looked at the letter, their grievances are genuine,” Lawal who represented John
Oyegun, national chairman of the APC, at the meeting said.
“And they requested a meeting
within seven days and before the seven days expired, I called them and they
were not ready to come, they said we should shift the meeting till today, which
we did.
“So, we are listening to them, we
have listened to them and we would take up their matter seriously, we will
address it. We don’t ignore our people except if you don’t send your grievances
to the party, but if you send, we will always address your grievances.”
On his part, Baraje said his
faction is still in talks with the party over the issues they raised.
“When talks begin, you can’t say
it will end on a particular day. It goes on and on. It may please the party to
say, okay, let’s shift the meeting to another venue to discuss with other
stakeholders,” he said.
“We never threatened. I said it
yesterday to your colleague. If you look at that letter, what we said was that
we suggested that we are attended to, and have a meeting within seven days as a
result of the preparation for congresses and convention if you look at that
paragraph. That is what we said.”
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