The All Progressives Congress (APC) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for specifically reading the riot act on those clamouring for the break up of the country, describing his speech Monday as an outstanding one.
National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who gave the commendation while inaugurating a seven-member reconciliation committee for the Party’s Kogi State Chapter at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, said that he was equally impressed with the assurance that anybody can live and work in any part of the country.
Reacting to Mr President’s Monday morning broadcast to Nigerians, the party boss said: “The speech was absolutely outstanding. You see, he is the President of this nation. He has been away for quite a bit of time. Agents of destabilisation have been very much at work because they thought his absence created a gap and a weakness within the polity which they tried to exploit.
“So Mr. President in his wisdom discerned that the stability, unity, peace and security of this nation and the ordinary Nigerian are the key issues at this material time. He addressed them and went straight to the core of the issues. He left nobody in any doubt that any Nigerian is entitled as a matter of right to live, work and operate in any part of this country.
“He made it clear and left no one in any doubt that yes, while people can discuss issues and the relationship in the nation, the National Assembly is there to handle such issues. But he drew one red line that the only thing that is not on the table is that this nation can be divided. He made it clear that the unity of the Nigerian nation is not up for negotiation of any type.
“Mr. President picked on the core issue that was creating a lot of disquiet in the nation today and he made his views crisp and clear. Any leader must be able to set priorities. He set a very clear and unambiguous priority. The others he will deal with in the course of time,” he noted.
Meanwhile the party has, however, declared that there won’t be any zoning arrangement in the forthcoming governorship primary in Anambra state.
“Attention of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been called to a report that the Party has zoned the governorship ticket in Anambra State to a particular part of the State. This report is false.
“The Party has not taken any such decision. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all the aspirants to compete freely and democratically at the primaries. All aspirants that have been cleared by the party to contest in the primaries should therefore ignore the misleading report.”
