Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) National Reconciliation Committee (NRC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu has said his committee will not work on speculations but petitions and complaints submitted by aggrieved members.
He said all aggrieved members have been urged to submit petitions to the committee.
Members who are also in court have been persuaded to withdraw their cases.
Adamu, who made this known to reporters in Abuja after his committee meeting said they are committed to resolving all grievances either before or after the congresses, stressing that, “we don’t want to go to the convention as a divided house”.
The former Nasarawa State Governor noted that the committee is going to ask for petitions and complaints to be formally submitted.
“We are not going to assume. We have to formalise it, party issues are not a one-man issue. It is a body of institutions comprising members.
“Where there are complaints, we want to have them in writing, put it on record on what complaint and coming from where and from whom. We would arrange after compiling the complaints, we will arrange to have interaction directly with the sources of these complaints.
“Who are the principal persons behind the complaints then we will have a meeting with them. Then round up with the leaders, so that we will also tap from their experiences and fair knowledge of what is happening to our party.
“By the time we do that, we will have a complete package of the solutions that were provided. We will do our best to see that this assignment succeeds.
“Generally anybody that is aggrieved will petition, they will formally submit what is their grievances, what is offending them. We will not work on speculations, we want to have a formal presentation on the areas of conflicts, and based on that, we see how to approach our solution and efforts to reconcile the disagreeing parties.
“We don’t want to work with speculations. Anyone aggrieved should write formally to us, the committee.”
On aggrieved members who are already in court, theAdamu said: “We also find means to encourage those who have sued the party to withdraw their cases. You know the party has advised members against instituting legal action.
“We don’t want to go to the convention as a divided house. We will address the grievances before the convention,” Adamu assured members.