John Oyegun says he will not seek
re-election as national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Oyegun said this on Friday while
speaking with journalists in Abuja.
The chairman said he does not
want to be part of the problem that the ruling party would have to solve.
“I do not intend to be part of
the problem for APC to solve. It is for this reason that I hereby declare that
I will not be seeking reelection as the National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC,” Oyegun said.
“However, I will continue to
perform my functions as the national chairman of the party till my tenure
officially ends on Monday the 25th June when a new set of party executives will
be inaugurated.”
He explained that the national
executive committee (NEC) initially extended the tenure of the party executives
so that the APC could go into the 2019 elections united.
“With the 2019 general election
looming in the horizon, some of us considered it to be in the best interest of
the party to go into the elections as a united fighting force, rather than one
that was potentially weakened by internal conflicts arising from competitive
congresses and convention,” Oyegun said.
“It was for this reason that we
canvassed and obtained the NEC dusk of February 27, asking all executives of
the party to continue in acting capacities fora mother period of 12 months.
“If this decision was sustained,
we probably would have achieved our objective. But we would only have succeeded
also in postponing the evil days as it were. In retrospect, I am inclined to
agree with the viewpoint that even a young political party as ours need to be
subjected to the crucible of these contestations, which in any case, is the
hallmark of progressive politics.
“In the end, even as difficult as
the situation may appear at the beginning, the experience we would draw from
managing the contending interests, can only hope to make our party stronger and
more resilient.”
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