The 2019 governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River state, Senator John Owan Enoh, has defended his inclusion as member of the APC National Reconciliation Committee (NRC) headed by the President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan.
A group, Concerned Members of the All Progressives Congress, Cross River state, had petitioned the APC national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, asking for the review of the membership of the NRC, with the demand that Enoh’s name should be dropped.
In the petition was signed by Busa Thomas Osowo Bisong and Pastor Kingsley A. Ebuka, the group alleged that, among other things, Enoh is a disloyal party member.
The statement read in part: “Without prejudice to the efforts of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to revive the party, we regret the composition of the National Reconciliation Committee because it shows open bias.
“While it is agreed that reconciliation is crucial and imminent in politics, a reconciliatory process should not be carried out to evoke provocation and abuse the sensibilities of the various actors and interest groups. Therefore, the members of the reconciliation committee must consist of party men and women of proven character and whose participation in the party is consistent and traceable to the merger of 2014.
However, in a swift reaction, Enoh dismissed the allegations of the group.
In a statement from his media consultant, Missang Oyama, he described the petitioners as “enemies of APC working in consonance with the former Minister of Niger Delta, Usani Usani.”
“We write in response to a petition forwarded to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) against distinguished Senator John Owan Enoh as the secretary of the newly constituted National Reconciliation Committee of the party. The petition is replete with heated rhetoric and caustic pathological falsehood. The tactics of the petitioners appear intended to mask their moral deficiencies as they keep reveling in their pervasive penchant to distort facts. “Their baseless allegations were framed with the purpose of distracting and diverting the attention of the party from the central issue of reconciling all aggrieved members.”
