The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams
Oshiomhole, has said he cannot lose sleep over the breakaway faction of
the ruling party.
Oshiomhole, while addressing journalists at the National Assembly
after a marathon meeting with the APC caucus in the House of
Representatives, described members of the Reformed All Progressives
Congress (R-APC) as hired mercenaries.
The former Governor of Edo State said he had been engaging “real
stakeholders” of the party, as part of measures of resolving the crisis
in APC.
“There is no breakup in our party. If one Galadima is not happy, that is fine. He has a right not to be happy.
“If he chooses to call himself whatever he wants to call himself,
that is not the issue. I will not lose my sleep over that. We know those
who are in the system. Those who are seeking breakup that is their
problem. We are engaging real stakeholders. I mean between the executive
and the two arms of the national assembly.
“We have very important influential leaders we are engaging. If
people are being sponsored by those who thought our convention will be a
failure, those who were expecting implosion, so be it. If you reviewed
the headlines before the convention, there were stories like people are
going to walk out of the convention; people will boycott the convention.
“In the end, they were shocked to find out the president was seated,
the senate president was seated, the speaker was seated and the national
leaders were seated. Our chairman was seated. All the governors were
seated. They were like what do we do next? If after two weeks of living
in pains that they are disappointed, they find mercenaries who are
willing to be hired for a purpose, they have right to be hired but will
not cause any distraction within the core of APC leaders,” Oshiomhole
said.