Prince Tony Momoh, a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out meeting with former new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) members.
The former Minister of Information said Buhari did not categorically state that he was not interested in meeting with them.
“What he said was that there is a party structure and the issue at hand is a party matter. Let the nPDP members meet the party leadership and of course, they have been meeting with Vice- President, Yemi Osinbajo and the president said that can continue”, he told Independent.
“There is a structure in our party. Why are they trying to undermine the national chairman of the party? We have a national chairman, who is Chief John Odigie-Oyegun and he will remain until the convention when another chairman will be elected. Even if a new chairman is elected, he will take off where Oyegun ended.
“There is none among the nPDP leaders who does not have direct access to Mr. President and they have met but when it comes to a group that has some concerns in the party wanting to meet the president, they have to follow the procedure.
“It is a party grievance and there should be people they can meet in the party. If they go and meet the president and they don’t reach an agreement, then what happens? Will they say they are leaving the party?
“My advice is let us not overdo these things. Our brothers and sisters who came from PDP are APC members as we speak now. They are not PDP. Three legacy parties merged to form APC. They are ACN, CPC and ANPP.
“There is no party registered with INEC called NewPDP that merged with other parties to form APC. There is nothing like nPDP in APC. Those in PDP that defected to APC joined as individuals. So, to call them new PDP is just playing politics. Even my colleague, Abubakar Kawu Baraje said we are APC members,” he said.
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