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APC Crisis: Oshiomhole, NWC meet Saraki, Senate

 

Begs senators not to dump party

Baraje, aggrieved members form new group

Lead us out of APC, Kwara senatorial chairmen tells Senate President       

By Mumini AbdulKareem

The new national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole yesterday met with the leadership of the Senate and pleaded with the aggrieved party members not to dump the party.

He made the plea on Wednesday when he led members of the national working committee (NWC) to meet with the senate leadership and the caucus of the party in the senate.

The meeting was the first official visit Oshiomhole has made to the senators since his emergence at the National Convention in Abuja in a bid to find solution to the crisis rocking the party.

It was gathered that the meeting which later went into a close door session and lasted for over three hours from 3:30pm and entertained grievances of the aggrieved member with a promise to do things differently henceforth.

But this development was coming just as Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje and other a section of other aggrieved members of the party formed a new wing, the Reformed-APC (R-APC) from the former nPDP bloc in the party.

Oshiomhole further reiterated the appeal for members of the party to be patient with his leadership in a chat with newsmen after receiving the just concluded National Convention Appeal Panel Committee’s report on Wednesday in Abuja.

“My appeal to all those who are aggrieved is to be patient,” Oshiomhole said in an apparent response to the emergence of the new group.According to him, under his leadership, the APC will make honest mistakes and the courage to make up once attention was drawn to such.

“Some people say how can people eat their words, for me, I will eat my words if it is nutritious enough and if that is what I have to do to have peace in the family,” he said.

The APC national chairman maintained that he would do everything possible to sustain confidence and trust, adding that everybody was important in the party.

He also said that everybody in the party matters, adding that he would run an inclusive party.

Reacting to the emergence of the new group, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, APC National Publicity Secretary said the party leadership would get the full details of what happened before taking a pronouncement on it.

Responding, the Senate President noted that the engagement of Oshiomhole was promising and assuring.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the nPDP, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has joined other aggrieved members of the party to form a new faction APC in Abuja.

The new faction, named Reformed APC (R-APC) appointed Buba Galadinma chairman.

Briefing journalists after the meeting at Sheraton Hotels Abuja, Galadinma queried the election of Oshiomhole and noted that the new faction was formed due to the failure of the APC which has severely underperformed and unable to meet its potentials for good governance.

“The APC has run a rudderless, inept and incompetent government that has failed to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. It has rather imposed dictatorship, impunity, abuse of power, complete abdication of constitutional and statutory responsibilities, infidelity to the rule of law and constitutionalism.”

The R-APC is reportedly in discussion with other parties including the PDP, Social Democratic Party (SDP), and African Democratic Congress (ADC) for a possible coalition to challenge the APC in 2019.

The faction said it had appointed its own leaders across the states.

“The R-APC as constituted have officers in all the wards, 774 Local Governments, and all the 36 States of the Federation including the FCT.

“The R-APC also has National Executive Committee, the National Working Committee and other organs of the Party are properly constituted and functional,” the faction said.

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