The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has debunked reports on the allegation of bribery purportedly leveled against the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, by some APC governors.
Reacting through the State Publicity Secretary, Godwin Erhahon in Benin on Wednesday, the party said the said publication was a pigment of the writer’s imagination and had no element of truth in it.
According to the said report, eight APC governors had in a meeting with the national chairman faulted him for “collecting gifts from Senator Bukola Saraki before the NASS election, while pretending to be in support of the party’s decision to cede the Senate Presidency to Senator Ahmed Lawan.”
Reacting however, Erhahon said the state chapter of the party would confidently avow that the said allegation has nothing to do with the outcome of the governor’s meeting with the APC National Chairman.
He said, “That publication is a pigment of the imagination of the author. We in Edo have been able to read the statement of the governor and the national chairman and there was no spelt allegation or call for resignation.
“In any case, who can bribe the national chairman and what for? The emergence of the current Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives was something that was not expected; it took everybody by surprise and the governor took his own position.
“Everybody is also aware that President Mohammadu Buhari told everyone to calm down and ensure that the matter was not allowed to break the party. So at what level will bribery come in?”
Reacting also to the bickering in the party over Senate leadership, Erhahon noted that the issue of what the national secretariat sent to the Senate had been overtaken by the constitution of the current leadership of the upper chamber, adding that the “party should reason with the leadership of the National Assembly.”
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