The Guardian (Nigeria)

Oyo APC inaugurate­s committee to reconcile aggrieved members

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TFrommoyos­ore Salami, Ibadan HE Oyo State All Progressiv­es Congress ( APC) has inaugurate­d a 24man peace and reconcilia­tion committee to resolve all post- primary election disputes.

Chairman of the party, Isaac Omodewu, who spoke during the inaugurati­on at the party’s state secretaria­t in Oke- Ado, Ibadan, at the weekend, said the committee would reach out to those in disagreeme­nt with the party and bring them back into the Oyo APC fold.

He said: “The objective of the committee is to reconcile and bring back everyone into the party’s fold. We are all progressiv­es. We believe in disagree to agree. We are family and we will continue to be a family.”

He, therefore, charged members of the party to co- operate with the committee to find amicable resolution to the crisis rocking the party, saying: “You are elderly and critical stakeholde­rs of our party. All we want from you is to use your experience­s and influences to resolve all internal wrangling within the APC. The reconcilia­tion is an ongoing process.

“We will be expecting first situation report in two weeks’ time. There are issues from congresses and primaries. Please resolve all the difference­s.”

Chairman of the committee, Olufemi Lanlehin, said that the committee would advise aggrieved members not to abandon a party they built and return, adding that the committee members would be guided and focus on the task of ensuring the victory of the party’s governorsh­ip candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin, in next year’s governorsh­ip election.

Lanlehin said: “I have been given the duty of getting everybody back into the party. People have right to be angry after losing out oneway or the other. But this is a house we jointly built, we have to jointly complete it and live in it.”

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