Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, has reacted to the alleged face-off between him and the Edo
State Governor, Godwin Obaseki.
The alleged face-off had resulted to threat to suspend
Oshiomhole from the party at the state level.
However, Oshiomhole insisted that he was never involved in
any intra-party fight and would never insult any member of the APC.
Speaking in Edo North after some members of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, defected to APC, Oshiomhole said he won’t fight his
party members because he is out for unity.
According to Oshiomhole, he dissipates his energy in
fighting the opposition and not his party members.
He said: “The good thing about entertainment is that you
choose the kind of entertainment you want but when it comes to rules, they are
rigid and they are even enforceable so I think that sooner than later everybody
in the APC family will see the futility of fighting one another.
“I never dissipated energy fighting within the party, I was
never involved and I will never be involved in intra-party fighting, rather, I
reserve my energy for the opposition and once they ring the bell for the
contest, I deploy that reserve energy.
“I have not publicly or privately fought or abused any APC
leader or member, any ACN leader or member, any AC leader or member.
“That does not mean that a couple of people didn’t do what I
didn’t like but I also recognized that that is why we are humans and my
responsibility as a leader is to identify those people, bring them, persuade
them, caution them where necessary and guide them on how to go forward.”
The APC National Chairman, however, admitted that there was
internal quarrel within the party.
Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State recalled how some
members of the party burnt cars at Benin airport in a bid to prevent an
aircraft he was in from landing.
The APC Chairman, however, harped on the unity of the party.
He added: “There must be disagreement, there must be
contests, there must be legitimate divergent views about how to arrive at a
destination.
“You know we had an incident like that in Benin when some
people just chose to go and buy disused vehicles, put them on the road, burn
the asphalt on airport road just because they didn’t want me to land in Benin;
what was the purpose of my coming? To receive more people into our party.
“My language has always been our doors are open, let people
who share our ideology come to join us when they do they enjoy all privileges.
We have always been receiving people from PDP and my message is the same and it
will remain the same whether I am chairman or not.”
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