Oyegun
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said yesterday that the governing party will bring its federal lawmakers together.
The lawmakers are feuding following the election of the principal officers.
The members defied the party to pick the Senate President and House of Representatives speaker.
“Let me assure the public that peace is on the way. We had a problem in the family, no doubt about that, but we are moving quickly to resolve it. As you can see, we are working hard to see that the leaders and rank and file don’t start throwing punches”.
The APC National Chairman said the immediate concern of the party was how to quickly unify its members in both chambers if the National Assembly, saying “All the party has decided to do is to re-unify as quickly as possible our members in both chambers of the National Assembly under the existing realities. That is the first priority. Every other thing will follow. All other thing will have to wait.
“For instance, if the president says he wants to present his list of ministerial nominees to the Senate, we don’t want a situation whereby the senate will be divided. So, we are trying to sort that out; it is our number one priority. We are happy that we are arriving at an amicable settlement of the situation; this one cannot wait for long. It has to be immediately.
“There was no doubt that when you have problems, your opponent will seize the opportunity to rise up. What is important is how quickly we put our acts together and get all these behind us and move forward strongly. Some of these setbacks, no doubt, will give the other side the opportunity to laugh, but it is temporal and usual wherever you have human beings”
The Nation
