Oyo APC inaugurates committee to reconcile aggrieved members

The Oyo State All Progressives Congress (APC) has inaugurated a 24-man peace and reconciliation committee to resolve all post-primary election disputes.

Chairman of the party, Isaac Omodewu, who spoke during the inauguration at the party’s state secretariat in Oke-Ado, Ibadan, at the weekend, said the committee would reach out to those in disagreement with the party and bring them back into the Oyo APC fold.

He said: “The objective of the committee is to reconcile and bring back everyone into the party’s fold. We are all progressives. We believe in disagreeing to agree. We are family and we will continue to be a family.”

He, therefore, charged members of the party to co-operate with the committee to find an amicable resolution to the crisis rocking the party, saying: “You are elderly and critical stakeholders of our party. All we want from you is to use your experiences and influences to resolve all internal wrangling within the APC. Reconciliation is an ongoing process.

“We will be expecting the first situation report in two weeks’ time. There are issues from congresses and primaries. Please resolve all the differences.”

Chairman of the committee, Olufemi Lanlehin, said that the committee would advise aggrieved members not to abandon a party they built and return, adding that the committee members would be guided and focus on the task of ensuring the victory of the party’s governorship candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin, in next year’s governorship election.

Lanlehin said: “I have been given the duty of getting everybody back into the party. People have the right to be angry after losing out one way or the other. But this is a house we jointly built, we have to jointly complete it and live in it.”

We appreciate the chairman of the party for giving us the honour to do this for the party.”