Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says he believes the “rebellion”
within the ruling party will be crushed.
On Wednesday, aggrieved members
in the APC floated a new faction — the Reformed APC (R-APC) — accusing the
ruling party of betraying their hopes.
But speaking when he received
former state chairpersons of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in
Abuja, Oshiomhole said the party listened to R-APC members before they left the
party.
“(But) it is as if a very hungry
bird is dancing at the centre of the road and a disgruntled drummer not far
away in the bush is drumming for him,” he said.
“I am very confident that we can
afford to ignore Buba Galadima … for me, there is no cause for alarm, nobody
should panic over one Baba Galadima, whose group, I believe, cannot define us
in the next election in 2019.
“Nigerians are wiser, they know
that corruption is fighting back, they also know that President Buhari’s
resolve to fight corruption must elicit a counter force and that force must
find attraction in some people.
“But like we have rightly said,
we should not be distracted and we encourage the president not to be
distracted, he must remain focused and sustain the fight and I believe the
rebellion will be crushed using the superior power of argument, persuading our
people not to forget in a hurry where we are coming from.”
He added that the APC is not
ashamed to talk to people who have “genuine” grievances but “when we see people
who don’t mean well, there are a lot of idle people who don’t have any other
thing to do and once they don’t have access to national honey pot, then they
begin to complain.”
The former CPC state chairpersons
expresses their loyalty to the APC under Oshiomhole and distanced themselves
from the R-APC.
Oshiomhole had earlier said he
would not lose sleep over the R-APC.
Bolaji Abdullahi, APC spokesman,
has denied the existence of any faction within the party.
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