APC Reconciliation: Tinubu, Akande, Caretaker C’ttee Speak

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‘No Differences To Be Sorted Out’, Says Tinubu 

By Kolawole Ojebisi

The Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday kicked off its consultations with visit to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and pioneer Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande

It was the committee’s first step since its inauguration following the dissolution of the National Working Committee (NWC).

Speaking last night after the meeting at his Ikoyi, Lagos home, Tinubu, one of the party’s national leaders said: “We have no differences to be sorted out. We just had consultations and those consultations are about how our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), will continue to be a progressive party.

“Politics without seeming ‘media crisis’ will be less interesting, depending on your (reporters’) persistent questioning.

“But the question is: are we committed to building this party and Nigeria? That is what we are all about. We’re steering the ship of our party and our nation in the right direction.”

He added: “We lost one of our brothers, Isiaka Ajimobi. We discussed him, sent a very sincere condolences to the family and looked at our party, the APC, which is the cure for aches and pains.

“We’ll apply the ingredients of APC to what appears to be pains in our party so we can heal.

“Sincerely, we have trust and respect for the character of the chairman of the caretaker committee.

“We’re willing to support him to succeed for the party to continue its crusade of progressive governance in the country.”

Asked if it was a reconciliatory visit, he said: “Who was fighting who? The caretaker committee is on consultation. We have never been divided.

“In politics, there can be disagreements. There are instances where you disagree but it doesn’t mean that you cannot discuss it, and be a good example in leadership and politics.”

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said: “I am a good host, I am happy to have my colleagues here, it has been a very fruitful discussion we had here this evening.”

The Caretaker Committee Chairman and Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni led the delegation to Tinubu’s home.

Other members of his entourage are: Secretary Senator John James Akpan Udoedehe, Kebbi State Governor Abubakar Bagudu and Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello.

Governor Buni said the meetings were part of the consultations “we are making. You know the task before us is daunting and we need guidance, experience and prayers from our leaders.”

The NWC led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole served for two years and two days, but intra-party squabbles and litany of litigations bogged it down, leading to its dissolution.

Buni had earlier led a five-man delegation to Akande’s Ila-Orangun home in Osun State, for a one and half hour parley.

Members of the delegation and caretaker committee are Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, Niger State Governor Sani Bello, Senator Akpan Udoedehe and Governor Bagudu.

Speaking on the meeting with Akande, who is the chairman of the party’s Reconciliation Committee, a source said: “The shuttle to Osun was part of the ongoing consultations with stakeholders to seek their input.

“The session is all about how to reconcile and reshape the party in the overall interest of all. It was on the future of the party and how to make it stronger.

“Akande is very important because he is the foundation chairman of APC. He also heads the reconciliation committee which has received over 170 petitions. The committee went to consult  Akande in order to know where the shoes pinch.

Director of Press to Governor Buni, in a statement said: “Akande urged the committee to differentiate true party men from platform seekers for the party to grow.

“There is a great hope in what l have seen in this committee, the party will certainly bounce back stronger.

“I will continue to leave myself open with a call on other stakeholders to cooperate and support the committee to succeed.”

Buni described the meeting as successful and very fruitful.

He added: “This meeting further gave the committee a lot of confidence towards a very successful exercise.

“With such support and encouragement from founding fathers like Chief Akande, we are strengthened and confident that all other stakeholders will extend the required support for the party to emerge stronger.

Recall that Tinubu has consistently described Akande as his “political soulmate”. It is believed in some quarters that Akande, who is a long-standing progressive and avowed Awoist, is held in high regard by President Muhammadu Buhari.

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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