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  • Oyo APC to ward, local govt excos: reconcile aggrieved members

    The Oyo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged its chairmen in the wards and local government areas to immediately reconcile aggrieved members.

    The party spoke yesterday at its secretariat in Ibadan, the state capital, at the inauguration of the party executives for the 351 wards in the 33 local government ares and 35 local council development areas (LCDAs) in the state.

    The newly inaugurated executives emerged from the last Ward and local government congresses of the party across the state.

    Congratulating the new executives on behalf of the state chairman, Chief Akin Oke, the State Deputy Chairman, Mr. Lekan Adeyemo, urged them to ensure that those who were hurt in any way during the last congresses are brought back to the fold.

    The deputy chairman warned that the party cannot afford to lose any member.

    He said: “Our party’s constitution says it is mandatory for elected party executives to be sworn in. All our new party executives in the state have been sworn in. Today, we are conducting yours too.

    “Immediately we were inaugurated at the state executive levels a week ago, we started the reconciliation of aggrieved party members, and the effort is ongoing.

    “I charge you to follow the same step of the state executives and embark on immediate reconciliation of our aggrieved members, either they are aggrieved with the party or aggrieved with the governor. We cannot afford to lose any member now and we must bring all of them back.”

    The state APC Secretary, Mr Mojeed Olaoya, also appealed to the newly inaugurated executives not to trivialise the reconciliation process.

    He urged the party executives to extend the olive branch to all members who might be angry with the party.

    Olaoya said the peaceful conduct of the congress showed that the party was the most organised, adding that APC would ensure that its aggrieved members were reconciled.

     

  • Don’t quit, Oyo APC chairman tells aggrieved members

    The Chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State, Chief Akin Oke, has begged aggrieved members of the party to rescind their decision to dump it.

    The chairman urged them to allow for reconciliation in the overriding interest of the party.

    Oke spoke yesterday while inaugurating the party’s 35-member State Executive Committee (SEC) at the state party secretariat at Oke-Ado in Ibadan, the state capital.

    Rather than join any other party where they would be treated as newcomers, the chairman urged those concerned to team up with the APC mainstream to build the party and put it in a good stead ahead of next year’s general elections.

    The aggrieved members were said to have mulled defection to another party after the inauguration of Oke as the state chairman by the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, on Monday.

    Oke noted that since the party was jointly built to attain victory in the two previous general elections, the aggrieved members should reconsider their stand and avoid anything that could jeopardise the chances of the party at the polls.

    The chairman added that the party would swing into action to reconcile the aggrieved members and bring them back to the mainstream.

    He said: “As directed by the leader of the party in Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, we will all work within our capacity to ensure that peace finally returns to the party.

    “Since members of the reconciliation committee will derive their powers from the party, it is expedient for us to inaugurate the State Executive Council today. Otherwise, it will be futile for us to set up any committee that will not have any constitutional backing.

    “I can assure you that we will do all within our powers to ensure peace. Whatever it will take, we will ensure that peace returns to the party. I’m appealing to them to bury the hatchet in the overriding interest of our great party.”

    Oke said conflict was a normal phenomenon in any political party that was in control of a state and the centre governments, adding that the APC was big enough to accommodate all shades of opinions.

    He added: “I am, therefore, using this occasion to appeal to some of our leaders and supporters who are aggrieved to please reconsider their positions.

    “We are appealing to them not to go to any other party. As progressives, we know conflicts always arise within the party, especially when the party has the control of the state and the centre.

    “Let us remain within the party to solve our problems. And by the grace of God, I am sure we are going to overcome these trying times and come out of it stronger.”

    Members of the executives who took the oaths of office administered by a lawyer, Mr. Segun Abayomi, included Lekan Adeyemo (Deputy Chairman); Mojeed Olaoya (Secretary); Arikewuyo Rasaq (Vice-Chairman, Oyo North); Chief Solomon Akindele (Vice-Chairman, Oyo Central) and Prince Ade Adekanye (Vice-Chairman, Oyo South).

    Others are: Mrs. Mabel Williams (Woman Leader); Isiaka Aare-Okuta (Youth Leader); Mrs. Toyin Akintade (Assistant Woman Leader); Mrs. Ibrahim Faosat (Assistant Youth Leader) and Mr. Taiwo Ige (Welfare Officer).

  • Oyo: We’ll forgive aggrieved members -Ajimobi

    Sequel to parallel state congresses held in Oyo State yesterday, Governor Abiola Ajimobi has expressed willingness to accommodate aggrieved members of the party, if they are willing to repent.

    Noting that politics was usually ridden with agitation, interests, conflict and reconciliation, he avowed that he would be magnanimous and humble to accept aggrieved members who he expects to beg to return to the mainstream of the party.

    Ajimobi who spoke just after the congress of the party held at Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Ibadan, however, said he will accommodate those persons who propagate progressive ethos and eschew brigandage and thuggery.

     

     

    He charged the Chief Akin Oke-led state executive council, which was returned through consensus, for another four years term, to continue to work for the unity and peace of the party and accommodate everybody.

    Speaking on the need to restore peace in the party, Ex-Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala expressed the willingness to lead the cause of reuniting the ruling party, noting that he had offered himself to the governor to pursue the course.

    Addressing journalists, the State Congress Committee Chairman, Mr. Abdullahi Gwarzo, said the committee was unaware of any other congress apart from the one it coordinated at Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba.

     

  • Give Tinubu’s panel a chance, APC chief tells aggrieved members

    Give Tinubu’s panel a chance, APC chief tells aggrieved members

    An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Ekiti State, Chief Oladiran Adesua, has urged aggrieved state chapters as well as individuals, who are dissatisfied with the state of affairs in the party, to give the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Reconciliation Committee the chance to reposition the party.

    President Mohammadu Buhari recently nominated the former Lagos State governor to lead a reconciliation committee with the mandate to resolve any crisis among members.

    Adesua, a former Ekiti State Commissioner for Works, said the President took a good decision to have saddled Asiwaju Tinubu with the reconciliation of aggrieved party members.

    He said Asiwaju Tinubu remained the most respected member of the party.

    Adesua, who addressed reporters yesterday in Ado Ekiti, the state capital, said the crisis rocking some state chapters of the APC were not beyond what the party leader can resolve.

    On the coalition movement being championed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, the former commissioner said it was just a distraction.

    He urged the leadership of the party to examine some things Obasanjo said and use it to move the party forward.

    Adesua said: “My advice to our aggrieved party men and women is to give the reconciliation committee, led by our revered leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, the benefit of the doubt.

    “His choice to me is a right decision by the President. He remains one of the pillars of the party. I doubt if anyone has reservations about his choice because he is well respected.

    “Party crisis is part of democracy. Even in our nuclear family, there is disagreement, not to talk of a ruling party. I believe that Asiwaju Tinubu is capable of resolving the crisis rocking our party, if he is given the chance.”

    On Obasanjo’s Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), the APC governorship aspirant said the movement is not a threat to the party.

    Adesua said: “The coalition is just a distraction to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. But it will soon die. Obasanjo’s statement should be carefully examined to see if there is any lesson that could be learnt to move our party forward.”

  • 2019: APC to reconcile aggrieved members

    2019: APC to reconcile aggrieved members

    •Party void suspension orders in state chapters

    THE All Progressives Congress (APC) is to set up a peace and reconciliation committees to reconcile factions in its state chapters, as part of efforts to reposition the party ahead of the 2019 general election.
    The move is believed to be part of efforts to truncate plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to woo back some of its prominent members.
    To show its seriousness, the APC ordered that disciplinary actions against some members in the state chapters be reversed till further notice.
    The APC has been embroiled in internal crisis in several states, including Kaduna, Kano, Bauchi, Kogi among others, leading to suspension of party officials and other prominent members.
    Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central and former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have been engaged in a running battle with their state chapters, leading to their suspension.
    Also, the party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Timi Frank, was suspended by the Southsouth Zonal leadership. A member of House of Representatives from Katsina State was recently suspended from the party.
    However, in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the APC said it was concerned by the crisis in state chapters and has decided to address them ahead of its non-elective convention in April.
    The statement reads:  ”Disturbed by the internal crises in some state chapters of the party, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has decided to set up peace and reconciliation committees to intervene in the affected states.
    “In recent time, some state chapters of the APC have been engulfed in internal crises, leading to suspensions of party leaders and other members. Concerned by this ugly trend and as part of preparation for its non-elective National Convention, which is expected to hold not later than April 2017, the NWC has decided to set up the committees to resolve all outstanding issues for the party to have a united front going to the convention.
    “The committees will be made up of senior members of the party and the some members of the National Executive Committee (NEC). They will have the mandate to investigate all issues with a view to finding a lasting solution and reconciling members in the affected states.
    “In the interim, the party has directed that where actions have been taken and disciplinary measured applied, state chapters should be strictly guided by the relevant provisions of the party’s constitution on disciplinary procedures.
    “Therefore, where those actions have been taken in breach of the processes and procedures that are laid down in the party constitution, such actions should be reversed and the status quo maintained pending the intervention of the peace and reconciliation committees.”
    The PDP is planning to woo back some of its former members that had joined the governing APC as a result of impunity within the party.