We Are Not Calling NEC Meeting- Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu
–Why We’re Displaying Credentials Of Aspirants
Congress (APC) has refuted general notion that an emergency meeting of the party
is needed to tackle emerging crisis in the APC ahead of the forthcoming Edo State
governorship primaries.
required, declaring that National Working Committee which met on Monday remains
the administrative arm of NEC of the party.
Edo State governorship primary saying that it was wrong to tag what is happening in
Edo as crisis but contestations of differing interests which is expected in politics.
have conflicts and conflict to those of us who are practising politics is not crisis, it is
contestation of interest. And if you go to any other state, you have things that are
similar. The only difference this time is that you have the national chairman
happened to be from Edo.”
that at the end of the day, whether the national chairman, whether governor,
everybody is subjected to the same rule.
Onilu also shade light on the display of credentials of the six governorship aspirants
seeking the ticket of the party, pointing out that APC does not want a repeat of the
Bayelsa experience.
aspirants claimed in the course of verifying the claims, Onilu said the APC is open to
any assistance it can get to avoid what happened in Bayelsa.
experience that are not so palatable. We have had experiences that are so shocking
and we won’t be doing the right thing if we don’t learn from those experiences.”
“You will recall what happened in Bayelsa, we thought we did the best we should, but
it turned out that we did not do enough. So, the best thing we have to do now is to
go beyond ourselves to the things that may not be known to us.”
information to help the screening committee, we are also taking official steps to
verify some of these documents to be sure that we do the right thing and we come
out clean.”
the public, it does mean that people who know them very well; school mates,
aquintances, friends and even enemies could come up with whatever they have. We
are expecting help from whatever angle it could come from.”
with iur own constitution, the electoral act and the Constitution of this country. Give
everybody a fair chance and to be seen to have done our best”
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