The National Chairman of the All Progressives
Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday said the ruling party was
concerned about alleged internal sabotage going on in some agencies which were
headed by people appointed by the Peoples Democratic Party.
Odigie-Oyegun spoke
with State House correspondents after leading some members of the party’s
National Working Committee to a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.
He claimed the party
chiefs came to pay their respect to the President, adding that they, however,
raised their concerns on one or two issues.
When asked to disclose
some of the concerns the party chiefs raised with the President, Odigie-Oyegun,
who noted that the meeting was pleasant and rewarding, said the concerns were
internal party matters.
On the Monday mass sack of former President
Goodluck Jonathan’s appointees, he said, “APC members were not concerned about
the positions, we are concerned about the internal sabotage that is going on in
a lot of the PDP-filled positions which are critical to our national growth and
development.
“It is happening in
INEC, it is happening in a lot of other institutions and that is what the
concern of the party is, not necessarily taking over.
“We should take over
and there should be people who believe in the change agenda, we have no
apologies for that at all.”
He said it was at the
President’s discretion to decide how soon the replacements for the sacked
officials would come.
According to
Odigie-Oyegun, there is no confusion on the 2016 budget as people are being
made to believe.
He said, “There is
absolutely no confusion. This is a serious issue.
“I want you to please
understand the complications that come from adjusting a structure from over 40
ministries to just over 20 ministries and the necessary adjustments of figures
and movements of institutions that, that entails.
“It was very
complicated, so it is natural that adjustments have to be made to the process
and that is just is happening.”
-Punch
No comments:
Post a Comment