He warned that the party will lose quite a number of members if it conducts the national convention with 12 to 13 states still factionalised.
He said: “the best thing the leadership of this party will do and I will is to reconcile the different factions in APC in the different states, if you don’t do this, we are going to lose a quite number of people in the party. You can’t have different factions in almost 12 or 13 states and you go ahead to conduct a national convention and you believe that it doesn’t matter?
” It doesn’t matter in Kwara, in Lagos, in Adamawa, in Kano, Imo and many other States.
“So if the party leadership can be able to reconcile these different groups in the APC, then the party will come out stronger, it does not take anything. You see other political parties reconcile their members and move forward and I ask myself, what are we doing, is it that this power we got by the special Grace of God that we no longer remember how we suffered and laboured to get it.
” Are we now behaving like other parties that got power and they forgot to remember that power is transient, so the leadership of the party should first of all manage the crisis in the party within these few months before we go into the national convention.”
He also dismissed reports that the APC has zoned the chairmanship of the party to the South-East, stressing that the party has not come out with any such arrangement. He described it as mere rumour.
According to him, “I do not think that the leadership of the party has zoned the Chairmanship to the Southeast, it is just a mere rumour, the party has not come out to say so but in other words.
“I am a proponent of equity, justice and fair play, the right thing must be done and what is the right thing, the Southeast has not produced the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it should be allowed to produce the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I see some of our leaders from the South West and South-South on the television talking about Presidency, and I ask myself, where is the justice, equity and fair play? The South West has gotten the position in the eight years of Olusegun Obasanjo, the South-South had President Goodluck Jonathan, the Southeast has got nothing, do our leaders think at all about the unity of this country.
“Why should we accuse the North of holding power and trying to retain it again, meanwhile we from the South, we cannot root for equity, justice and fair play, if actually we are accusing the North of trying to hold on to power, then we should also come back home and accuse anybody or any region that wants to have power after the North, so I think for the peace and unity of this country, power should move down to the Southeast.
“I hate when people say that in the Southeast IPOB is destroying things and as a result of that Southeast will breakaway if they give them power, how can a reasonable person say that or how can someone say that Southeast has only two states that are APC, for Christ sake, when President Olusegun Obasanjo became President, almost all the states in the South West was in ACN and they didn’t vote for Obasanjo.
“We all voted for Obasanjo, so that is not a criteria for saying that South-East cannot produce President or they don’t have anybody, how can somebody wake up in the morning and say there is nobody in the Southeast, it is an insult, we have many people in the Southeast that are qualified to be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
