Senate President, Bukola Saraki has acknowledged the efforts of the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and national chairman of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole to reconcile aggrieved members of the party with its leadership but that it was too late.
Saraki who announced his defection to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday after months of speculations amid a protracted battle with a power bloc in APC, said that the peace efforts made by Osinbajo, Oshiomhole and governors would have made him “to reconsider the situation” if such efforts were allowed to yield intended results.
“The emergence of a new national party executive a few weeks ago held out some hopes, however slender,” Sarki said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The new party chairman has swung into action and did his best alongside some of the Governors of APC and His Excellency, the Vice President.”
The Senate President said that the. defections might not have been if a powerful bloc in the party had allowed for a genuine dialogue to take place.
“As I have realized all along, there are some others in the party leadership hierarchy, who did not think dialogue was the way forward and therefore chose to play the fifth columnists,.
“These individuals went to work and ensured that they scuttled the great efforts and the good intentions of these aforementioned leaders of the party.” [myad]
