The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday declared that the party remained one devoid of any faction.
Oshiomhole made this declaration in Abuja after he emerged from a meeting with the APC caucus in the House of Representatives.
The APC chairman spoke against the backdrop of the emergence of Reformed All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abuja on Wednesday.
Led by Alhaji Buba Galadima, the new group claimed that it was made up of all the progressives in the APC.
According to Galadima, members of the group felt bad that the APC-led administration had failed to fulfill its promises that made Nigerians vote for it.
But in his reaction, Oshiomhole dismissed the leader of the R-APC as of no political consequence.
His words: “There is no breakup in APC. If one Galadima of no particular political address says he is not happy, that is fine. He has the right not to be happy.
”And if he chooses to call himself what he wants to call himself, I won’t miss my sleep over that.
“We know those who are in the system. Those who are in the politics for bread and butter, that is their problem.”
He stated further: ”Between the executive and the two arms of the National Assembly, we have very important, influential leaders and we are engaging them.
”Now, if you have people who are being sponsored by those who thought that our convention would be a failure and they were expecting implosion… if you review the headlines before the convention, there were stories like ‘Oh people are going to walk out of the convention,’ ‘Oh people will boycott the convention.’
”In the end, they were shocked to find that President was seated, the Vice-President was seated and Senate President was seated.
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“Speaker of the House was seated, the national leaders were seated, the then national chairman was seated, and all the governors were seated.
”So they were like, what do we do next. They couldn’t stop what God has willed.
“So if thereafter, after two weeks of wriggling in pains that they were disappointed, you find machinery who are willing to be hired for a purpose, it is their right to be so hired.”
Oshiomhole said the emergence of the new group would not cause any problem in the party.
He said he had met with the leadership of the National Assembly, some governors and other stakeholders and the agreement was that some things had to be done differently.
“I am convinced that there are many things that we could do differently,” he said.
He also spoke about the chances of the APC in 2019 general elections.
”If people choose to be detained by fear, it is their choice. I am inspired by hope of the infinite possibilities for the future.”
