A leading member of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Sam Nkire, has implored the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, not resort to washing the party’s dirty linen in the public.
Nkire, who was once the National Chairman of the Progressive People’s Alliance, said party administration was like any other corporate management effort, which required that its image be considered as important as the product of the corporate entity, if not more.
He further advised the two leaders as well as any other leaders of the APC who may in the future wish to take “family matters” to the press to perish the idea.
According to him: “This can only make our opponents giggle at our misfortune.”
Nkire opined that party administration was not a task for a select few or a sole-administratorship, but team work, which involved more public participation than you have in some of the world’s largest public-quoted companies.
The APC chieftain added that excluding the opinion of other leaders and members of the party in decision making was bound to inflict internal injury, “which if care is not taken, could develop into a noticeable external sore”.
Nkire said in all his many years of political life and party administration, he had come to the singular conclusion that the shortest route to achieving cohesion in any political party was “inclusiveness”.
He however reassured Nigerians that there was no cause for alarm in the APC, adding that the main reason why party administrations are set up in the first place was solely for problem-solving within and outside the party.
Tinubu had last week written a letter in which he accused Odigie-Oyegun of frustrating his efforts to reconcile aggrieved members of the party, a task that was given to him by President Muhammadu Buhari.
In response, Odigie-Oyegun promised to render all available support to Tinubu to achieve the task.
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