Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed confidence that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will emerged stronger from the tension it went into during the state congresses of the party last weekend.
Professor Osinbajo who fielded questions from newsmen shortly after attending the inauguration of President Maada Bio as the new President of Sierra Leone in Freetown, the nation’s federal capital, said: “in politics, as you know, there will always be tensions. But the party is strong and the leadership and membership of the party are committed to ensuring that the party remains strong and continues to offer the hope and promise it has always offered and given to the people.”
He was sure that a lot of the issues will be resolved in due course, stressing that the tension is the normal order of thing.
“There will be some disagreements; there will be those who may feel that they need certain preferences or certain things which may not have been done earlier on. I don’t think there is any major problem.”
this was even as President Muhammadu Buhari described the successful completion of the APC primaries in Ekiti State where over 30 aspirants contested to fly the flag of the party as the governorship candidate as having further validated its credentials of true internal democracy.
Congratulating Dr. Kayode Fayemi, current minister of mine solid minerals, who emerged as the governorship candidate, President Buhari said that the APC is fully prepared to the country to another level of development.
President Buhari commended all the participants in the keenly contested position, who passionately worked hard to serve the state as governors, even as he advised them to keep upholding the values and philosophy of the party by supporting the APC candidate in the forthcoming elections.
President Buhari believes that Fayemi’s track record in the state as a reformist, with a penchant for building educational infrastructure and promoting the welfare of the ordinary people, will bolster his chances at the forthcoming polls. [myad]
