Adams Oshiomhole, a National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has disclosed why he has been
begging members of the Reformed-APC, R-APC, not to leave.
Recall that 15 Senators today
defected at plenary.
But the former Edo State governor
said his actions so far towards reconciliation were not acts of cowardice.
Speaking with Punch, Oshiomhole
noted that his appeal to aggrieved members was all about restoring peace and
getting justice for those who deserved it.
He said, “Throughout the weekend
and up till today (Monday), many of the national dailies reported different
stories with the impression that I have not been sleeping within the last one
week as a result of alleged midnight meetings with aggrieved party members, who
they say I have been begging not to leave the party.
“In some of the reports, the
insinuations even went as far as saying that I made juicy offers to the
aggrieved party members in stopping them from defecting. While I will not be
too direct in reacting to such reports here, I will only say though I have been
meeting aggrieved party members over whatever injustices they felt the party or
some chieftains of the party had done to them. I have not been having sleepless
nights as being reported, and also I am not in any way jittery.
“Rapprochement move, as far as I
am concerned, is not an act of cowardice but a desirous endeavour in making
peace since you can’t decree peace but only work for it. So, in a nutshell, I
am not ashamed of doing that as chairman of a great party. To those who the
rapprochement moves are being directed to, we want them to appreciate that we
are more or less trying to prevent them from making a blunder of dumping palm
wine for kain kain (local gin).”
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