Violence in Rivers rerun elections, a disgrace ---- Odigie-Oyegun
(Nigeria) National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, APC,
Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has condemned the violence that characterised the
Rivers State rerun elections, saying that it was a disgrace.
Speaking to spoke to Journalists after the party’s National
Executive Committee, NEC, meeting at APC's National Secretariat in Abuja on
Thursday, said “On Rivers rerun elections, o Rivers, Rivers. It is a disgrace.
That is the only thing one can say. Some of the things that happened and some
of the killings that happened would never have been able to happen in this
country. But the assurance we can give you and the assurance Mr President has
given us is that these issues will be vigorously addressed.
“People must not get away with that level of dastardly act
and killings of the most bestial act and in no circumstance must behaviour like be allowed to spread to
the rest of the country because unless you address it, you are infact inviting
other states to set up their own military wing.
“We went through all our experiences since the last
elections and we have taken decisions as to where our strengths were, where we
did not quite measure up and all these are going to be addressed.
“For the first time, NEC has established a budget for the party
and we have set up a committee to look once more into the constitution of the
party to be able to streamline it. More particularly, NEC decided to downsize
our Board of Trustees in line with all other constitutional amendment.
“We don't have any particularly number, but it is going to
be seriously downsized. The committee will be headed be the National Legal
Adviser. We will put our head together on that in the next day or two and there
may be need to hold on a little bit.
“On National Publicity Secretary, this is constitutional
matter. The zone has to now propose a replacement. It is part of the decisions
of today that we are going to have congresses all over the nation to fill all
vacancies at all levels of the party which resulted from victory at the
election by party officials who decided to contest, appointments at federal
level and at state levels. There are a lot of vacancies and we need congresses
because that is what the constitution provides. No day has been fixed for the
congresses because we just took the decision today and we are going to work on
it.”
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