Make peace, stop in-fighting, Osun APC chairman appeals to party leaders

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osun Chapter, Mr Gboyega Famodun, has on Thursday urged elected political office holders to be at peace with people at the grassroots.

Famodun in a statement issued by his Media Consultant, Mr Kola Olabisi, on Thursday in Osogbo, said that rift in the party at any level was not only diversionary but equally distractive to all arms of government.

According to him, reports from some of the local government areas in the state are unpleasant, having to do with fierce competition for attention, competition among elected political functionaries and some leaders.

He maintained that all parties involved need to bury the hachet and work together to ensure that the party's aim is achieved.

He stated that the party's aim to form a government for the overall benefit of the entire society would be defeated if the same group of people were working at cross-purposes over mundane and personal issues.

“If there is no crack on the wall, there is no way a lizard can make its way through such wall.

”Though we know that our party in government is currently doing the wish of the people in many states, it will be politically suicidal to pretend that the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is not waiting to escalate any crisis in the party to its own advantage.

“Everyone has a role to play in politics and it is the more, the merrier, meaning we have to do away with the politics of exclusion.

“There is no character that is not pathologically designed for a particular role in politics.

“Politics involves intensive human management acumen and skills which the leaders and principal political functionaries need in quantum to enable them function optimally,” he said (NAN)