The face-off between the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, and the Acting National Secretary, Victor Gaidom, has been described as normal by the party.
Oshiomhole and Gaidom had been at each others’ throat since two courts last week made contradictory pronouncements on the National Chairman, with the Acting National Secretary calling for a meeting of the National Executive Committee.
The meeting has been scheduled to hold on Tuesday (today), though the National Legal Adviser, Babatunde Ogala, and the National Publicity Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, had said there was nothing of sort in a joint statement.
Commenting on the crisis rocking the party in a statement on Monday, Issa-Onilu said it was not out of place in a political party like the APC.
He said: “The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not been factionalised or in the nature of crisis being repeatedly reported in a section of the media.
“In a political organisation such as the APC, contestations are not unusual and are not necessarily intractable. The issues being alluded to in the media reports are matters before the courts and should be allowed to run their normal and legal course. The exaggerated story foreboding Armageddon is far-fetched.
“We call on members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and the Party’s secretariat staff to resume at their offices and continue carrying out their scheduled roles and responsibilities without any fear.
“Finally, we thank the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, personnel of the Police, Department of State Services and other Security Services for their professionalism in the process of maintaining the peace and preventing hoodlums from fomenting trouble at the APC National Secretariat.
“We assure all our members in Nigeria and across the world that our leaders are capable of resolving any contestations that may arise bearing in mind the best interests of our great party and in the pursuit of progress and development of our country.”
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