By Our Reporter
Chairman of the Progressives Governors Forum, and governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha has reassured the John Oyegun-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that they will not seat back and watch him bullied out of office.
Okorocha told newsmen at the party’s national Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday that the APC would have to be restructured to make it stronger. He added that President Muhammadu Buhari would be addressing the party faithful in the weeks ahead as part of the moves to restore unity.
Okorocha explained: “You may recall that it was the same NWC that saw us through the elections. If these people were good enough to see us through, they should be honoured. And I want to assure them is that no one would bully them out or hush them out but there is need to make amendments where possible which is natural with any human organization.”
He continued:“So, the party will be restructured for the purpose of making it stronger and to move forward as a people and as a party.
“We have noticed that there is so much bitterness among the members and ranks of our party. There is need for communication and dialogue because where there is no deliberation and dialogue, war is inevitable.
“Again, very important, I came to commend the members of the NWC for their understanding, patience and sacrifices they made during the period of election.
“Mr. President and commander in chief who is the leader of the party would be addressing the party leadership very soon in a couple of weeks to come or before the next two months.
“From there we would take it up, but our party is united and strong and we must take advantage of the moment especially with the visible crisis in the PDP, many good people in the PDP want to join APC but they are still watching because they have not seen us show that which we are known for before the election and there is no reason why we cannot manage this victory.”
The APC has been battling with smouldering problems involving its key leaders including the National leader, Bola Tinubu, who many believe had been schemed out of things in the party. Due to the festering crisis in APC, the party has not been able to constitute its Board of Trustee members, nearly two year of coming on board. Many see what is happening as unprecedented plotting by the APC bigwigs who are hell bent on hijacking the party’s apparatus because of future elections.