There’s sabotage in govt agencies, says Odigie-Oyegun

All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman  John Odigie-Oyegun yesterday spoke of internal sabotage in the government agencies mainly filled by members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), whose Chief Executive Officers were sacked on Monday.

He spoke with State House correspondents after leading the party leadership to meet President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House, Abuja.

Reacting to the disengagement of 26 heads of government agencies, he said that APC was not desperate to take over the vacant positions created by the government’s action.

He said: “APC members are not concerned about the positions; we are concerned about the internal sabotage that is going on in a lot of the PDP filled positions which are critical to our national growth and development. It is happening in INEC, it is happening in a lot of other institutions and that is what the concern of the party is, not necessarily taking over. We should take over and they should be people who believe in the change agenda, we have no apologies for that at all.”

On how soon the replacements will be made, he said: “That is Mr. President’s discretion.”

Odigie-Oyegun disagreed with the suggestion that there is confusion with the 2016 Budget.

“There is absolutely no confusion. This is a serious issue. I want you to please understand the complications that come from adjusting a structure from over 40 ministries to just over 20 ministries and the necessary adjustments of figures and movements of institutions that that entails. It was very complicated, so it is natural that adjustments have to be made to the process and that is just is happening,” he said.

On the purpose of his visit, he said: “We just came to pay our respect to our President, and praised him on things that are going on. We raised our concerns on one or two issues and altogether we had a very pleasant and rewarding meeting.

Asked to speak on the issues, he said: “No, they were just internal party matters. I’m sure you are familiar with the political terrain and nothing different.”