APC convention: Buhari, Tinubu, Sheriff, Onu should be allowed to pick party national executives- Okorocha

Ahead of the rescheduled March 26 National Convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha has proffered a solution to the crisis rocking the APC.

Senator Okorocha who spoke with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja said the only way for the APC to come out of the crisis over its convention is to go back to the basics and recognise the original four blocks that formed the APC.

He explained that there were four political parties that formed the APC noting the CPC, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu came with (ACN), Governor Abdulaziz Yari, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and former governor of Ebonyi State, Ogbonnaya Onu, who is now Minister of Science and Technology came with ANPP and himself, Okorocha, leading APGA to the union.

He said the original founders of the APC like Tinubu and others should be given the honour of picking the persons that would hold sensitive positions in the party.

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He said that reverting to how APC distributed offices when it was formed will solve all crises rocking the party at the moment.

Okorocha said, “Our party, APC, is a great party. What is wrong with our party is that we have forgotten how we all started. We should not make the mistake of the PDP of old and I think that will be corrected with the coming party’s convention.

“Our initial position was that all positions would be shared among these four parties and DPP that came with few members and after the merger, the new PDP joined.

“Now, the wisest thing for all of us to do is to go back to the founding basics and distribute the political positions as we did it that time and there will be no rancour and it will be very peaceful.

“The father of the party now is President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari should be given that respect to pick the person that will hold a sensitive position in the party as chairman.”

He, however, supported the shift of the national convention to March 26, adding that this will give party leaders the opportunity to make some amendments.

“But, if we go into the election at this time and of course, it will open a pandora of litigation. APC can make an income of N2 billion on sales of nomination forms and after that APC can spend N3 billion on litigation activities.”

He reiterated that “the wise thing to do is to call the founding fathers of the party and give them key positions and carry everyone along, including the new people that joined the party.”