By Nathaniel Zaccheaus
A former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha has asked the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to share the next national executives of the party, among the founding fathers of the APC, to avoid further crisis.
He said the national executives of the party should be picked by President Muhammadu Buhari, former governor Bola Tinubu, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, and himself among others.
Okorocha, stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja.
He, also asked the APC leadership should pacify the founding fathers of the party to avoid unnecessary litigation after the March 26 convention.
He noted that the only way to overcome the APC crisis before and after the convention was to share the national positions among those who worked hard to make APC, a reality in 2014.
He said reverting to how APC distributed offices when it was formed, would solve all crises rocking the political party.
Okorocha said, “Our party is great. APC is a great party, what is wrong with our party is that we have forgotten how we all started, we should not make the mistake of PDP of old and I think that will be corrected with the party’s Convention.
“What we need to do is to go back to the basics so that we carry the culture of Unity, defeating of a sitting government that is not a small victory.
“There were four political parties that formed APC. They were, the Congress for Progressive Change led by the former head of state, Mohammadu Buhari who is now the President of Nigeria; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came with Action Congress of Nigeria; former governor Abdulaziz Yari, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff of the All Nigerians Peoples Party; a former governor of Ebonyi State, Ogbonnaya Onu who is now Minister of Science and Technology and myself, Rochas Okorocha leading the All Progressives Grand Alliance.
“Our initial position was that all positions would be shared among these four parties and the DPP that came with a few members. Also, the new PDP that came after the merger, should be accommodated.
“Now, the wisest thing for all of us to do is to go back to the founding basis and distribute the political positions as we did it that time and there will be no rancour and it will be very peaceful.
“The father of the party now is President Muhammadu Buhari. He should be given that respect to picking the person that will hold a sensitive position in the party as Chairman.
” Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should always be made to produce some key positions in the party and the other parties and should also be made to have positions and when this is done there will be no problem in APC.”
Okorocha expressed the fears that ruling APC would face multiple litigations in Court after the rescheduled National Convention of the party.
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He said the APC has unfortunately forgotten how it started and was making the mistake of PDP, but believed that the National Convention will be an opportunity to correct their mistakes if they listen to somebody like him.
He said, “If we go into the election at this time and of course, it will open a pandora of litigation because where 1000 people buy nominations form, APC can make an income of N2bn on sales of forms and after that APC can spend N3bn on litigation activities.
“So the wise thing to do is to call the founding fathers of the party and give them key positions and carry everyone along, including the new people that joined the party.”
He added that Tinubu who was quoted to have promised to fight dirty if the need arose could say so if the former Lagos governor perceive injustice
