We’ll support you to achieve reconciliation, APC tells Tinubu
The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says the National Working Committee (NWC) will give the needed assistance to the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led committee on “consultation, reconciliation and confidence building” efforts in the party.
Chief Odigie-Oyegun said this yesterday when he received the APC national leader at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently appointed the former governor of Lagos State to reconcile aggrieved party members.
Oyegun who received Tinubu at exactly 2pm, said his visit was significant in view of the presidential assignment given to him.
He described the former governor of Lagos State as a peace ambassador to heal wounds where the party had wounds.
He added that Tinubu was expected to bring everybody together to achieve one single objective of positioning the APC “as a fighting political force in good condition” to make the 2019 general elections become “runaway victory for the party.”
According to him, “There is no question that there are major issues in the National Assembly, major issues in Kano, Kogi and Benue which is the current challenge.
“So, we truly welcome your appointment and I want to say that we will give you all the assistance that you will possibly need to make your assignment a most successful one,” he said.
Earlier in his remarks before the close-door meeting that lasted for three and a half hours, Tinubu had told the party leaders that he was there for “consultations.”
Tinubu, whose visit to the party national secretariat was the first since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, said the assignment given to him included confidence building and resolution of conflicts in various states and at national level.
“It is a great honour to be before you as one of the leaders of this party. I am here to consult since you are already aware of the directive and announcement of the president who is the leader of our party and the president of this country.
“We worked hard to get victory; we have never governed before, but we won the confidence of Nigerians to govern. We have a cringe to really serve the country to change and reform the country, but it is not easy to have those changes implemented like instant coffee.
“We have to grow it; we have to face challenges. The challenges faced by the government and the president are enormous; it’s only because people are not paying attention to the various statistic that are available and we have to push that.
“The challenges of reform and re-engineering of the finances of this country, stopping corruption and challenging the status quo to change are there; they don’t go away overnight,” he said.