Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has assured President Muhammadu Buhari that the party will be victorious in 2019 without a splinter group in the party, Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC).
The R-APC which emerged three days ago, is led by a former secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Buba Galadima.
Speaking on Friday, Oshiomhole who played host to former state chairpersons of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), stated that his leadership had started meeting with members who have genuine grievances.
“We listened to Buba Galadima. It is as if a very hungry bird is dancing at the centre of the road and a disgruntled drummer not far away in the bush is drumming for him.
“But this is not to say that we are not aware that there are challenges here and there, but anything about APC is considered more much more than the sum total of all the challenges we have in many of the states. And by the special grace of God we shall overcome them and we are already overcoming them.
He said, “I am very confident that we can afford to ignore Buba Galadima.
“When we see people who have genuine grievances, we are not ashamed to talk to them. We recognise that democracy is an equaliser and only people who are humble enough to engage can survive and we have been engaging.
“We have been meeting with various individuals and groups who we believe really have genuine concerns on certain matters and we are making progress. But when we see people who don’t mean well, there are a lot of idle people who don’t have any other thing to do and once they don’t have access to national honey pot, then they begin to complain.”
Oshiomhole also encouraged Buhari, not to be distracted by the antics of the “rebels.”
“For me, there is no cause for alarm, nobody should panic over one Baba Galadima, whose group, I believe, cannot define us in the next election in 2019.
“Nigerians are wiser, they know that corruption is fighting back, they also know that President Buhari’s resolve to fight corruption must elicit a counter force and that force must find attraction in some people.
“But like we have rightly said, we should not be distracted and we encourage the president not to be distracted, he must remain focused and sustain the fight and I believe the rebellion will be crushed using the superior power of argument, persuading our people not to forget in a hurry where we are coming from.”
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