For the first time since the last general elections, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has met with the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in a move widely seen as the beginning of his new task as presidential negotiator into the crises bedeviling the party.
Detailing journalists after the meeting, which lasted nearly four hours, Tinubu, who was recently appointed by President Buhari to reconcile warring parties within the party said though the party remained the hope of Nigerians, it had lost tremendous goodwill since the 2015 elections. Tinubu,
In his words: “Since we won the elections, the expectations were very high and the goodwill was extremely high. But where are we today? ‘’The solution is to seek opinion and advice on the various complex issues around some states or if there is any national one, to reconcile, move the party in a cohesive manner, reposition it and build confidence among ourselves.”
He maintained that the challenges faced by the government and the President were enormous. and “It is only because people are not paying attention to the various statistics that are available. We have never governed before, but we won the confidence of Nigerians to govern.
“We have a creed to really serve the country, change and reform the country. It is not easy to have those changes implemented like instant curfew. We have to grow and face challenges. I sympathize with us and we should equally look at ourselves.”
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