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| APC Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun |
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC),
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said the party owes no one any apologies over
criticism that President Muhammadu Buhari has been selective in the fight
against corruption.
He made this disclosure after a meeting with the ruling
party’s national Working Committee members at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He stated that the party’s position was that the rot in the
system must be cleansed irrespective of whose ox is gored.
He said, “The APC is not in any apologetic. We promised
change and there is a rot in the system. This must be cleansed and whoever and
whatever ox is being gored, wherever the tree is going to fall, so let it be.
“We must get used to the fact that in the process of
cleansing the nation, there is going to be a lot of bullet to bite.
“The APC has not been in office at national level in the
last 10 to 16 years. So, the issue of whether somebody is PDP or not PDP does
not arise. We have a nation to cleanse. The President has committed himself to
that and we should support it whatever way it comes. We are not being
apologetic about that at all.
“It has nothing to do with witch-hunting. It just happened
that the dramatist personnel of the period all happened to be on one side of
the political divide. We have absolutely no intention to pressurise any group
or any nation towards a one-party state. It is not in our interest so to do
because we need a vibrant opposition.
“We need an opposition that will contribute constructively
to national discourse that will make us sit up and deliver to the people what
we promised. But the task is enormous and if anybody is ready to help to
discharge these responsibilities, he is welcome.”
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