The
APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has opened up on the worst
mistake he made in the recent past as the APC chairman, which if given a second
chance he will undo.
He
disclosed this “bad mistake” to Daily Trust in an interview, stating that his
decision to call a meeting of the federal lawmakers elected on the platform of
his party on the day the eight National Assembly was inaugurated was a terrible
mistake, stressing that if he had not listened to the advice of those who
persuaded him to do so, the Peoples Democratic Party wouldn’t have produced the
deputy Senate President.
According
to Oyegun, “There are lots of decisions, not just one, some of which are
private. If you want to limit it to the recent past, I would say the decision
to call the meeting that took place on the day the National Assembly was
inaugurated. That was a bad mistake.
“I
was persuaded and I agreed to call that meeting. Had it been it did not take
place, we probably won’t have a PDP person there today as the deputy Senate
president. The anger within the leadership of the party may not have turned out
as strong as it became.”
It
would be recalled that following the inability of the federal lawmakers to
choose a consensus candidate to lead them at the inauguration of the National
Assembly, the ruling party leadership had reportedly scheduled a meeting with
the lawmakers for 9am same day of inauguration.
However,
before APC Senators, who are in the majority, could return from the meeting
which took place at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, their PDP
colleagues helped to install Saraki as the Senate President, electing one of
their own, Ike Ekweremadu as his Deputy.
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