Ebun Francis|
Adams Oshiomhole, the newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Wednesday appealed to aggrieved members of the party to be patient with his leadership.
The former Edo State governor was responding to the emergence on Wednesday of a breakaway faction of the ruling party, Reformed APC (R-APC).
Also responding to the development, Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), told newsmen that the party would react when it gets the full details of the report on aggrieved members.
Abdullahi said, “We have report of a group who have purportedly described themselves as faction of our party.”
“We will be able to give our reaction as soon as we get the full details and have the opportunity to review it.”
Earlier on Wednesday, Buba Galadima, one of the key members of the nPDP that merged with the ruling party shortly before the 2015 general elections announced the formation of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC).
In announcing the formation of the breakaway group, Galadima said, “We are sad to report that after more than three years of governance, our hopes have been betrayed, our expectations completely dashed.”
“The APC has run a rudderless, inept and incompetent government that has failed to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. It has rather imposed dictatorship, impunity, abuse of power, complete abdication of constitutional and statutory responsibilities, infidelity to the rule of law and constitutionalism.”
Describing the APC as a party worse than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), R-APC accused the leadership of the ruling party of lacking political will.
“There is no evidence of any political will to reverse the decline of our party, while leaders who have created these circumstances continue to behave as if Nigerians owe our party votes as a matter of right,” Galadima noted in his inaugural statement.