The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, has said compromise among stakeholders in the Kogi State chapter of the party was inevitable for peace to return to its fold.
He stated this at the Party’s National Secretariat when he received the 300-page report of the five-member Fact-Finding and Reconciliation Committee constituted to address contentions in Kogi state on Wednesday.
Odigie-Oyegun, who thanked the committee for diligently carrying out the assignment, traced the controversies in Kogi APC to issues resulting from the demise of the Party’s late governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu.
He assured the Committee that the Party’s National leadership of the will study the report very closely and carefully in order to take the quickest action to lay the problems in Kogi APC to rest.
The APC National Chairman said: “I want to give you the assurance that we will study this report very closely and carefully. We will take the quickest action to lay the problems in Kogi state rest.
“I hope that all those who are party to it will also be ready and willing to make the compromises that are necessary, vital, inevitable if we are to reach a solution and restore a sense of belonging in the Party in Kogi state.”
Earlier on, the Chairman of the Fact-Finding and Reconciliation Committee, Prince Tony Momoh, thanked the Party’s national leadership for entrusting the committee with the “sensitive assignment”.
He also thanked Kogi stakeholders for “their enthusiastic cooperation and eagerness that peace returns to their state”.
According to the committee, some of the issues identified after engaging with stakeholders showed that the contentions emanated from ruptured party state executive/government relations; poor stakeholder consultations; appointments; political reconciliation of the Audu/Faleke group; workers’ salaries; internal security; membership registration; anti-party activities amongst others.
Momoh, said: “Our engagement with key stakeholders was to ensure win-win concessions. Mr. Chairman, the Party is hereby invited to study the committee’s report and the detailed presentations with a view to taking action, speedy action, to begin in earnest the re-establishment of communication lines among the various stakeholders in Kogi Stated APC.
“Delay in implementing the recommendations will deepen the disagreements in Kogi State and endanger our fortunes in that state”, the committee chairman stated.
Other Committee Members are: Gen. John Shagaya, Sen. Barnabas Gemade, Gen. Ahmed Aboki and Sen. Olubunmi Adetunbi.
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