Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai has said the disaffection in some chapters of the All Progressives Congress arising from the conduct of ward and local government congresses was nothing to worry about.
The Kaduna state governor made the remarks on Tuesday at the party national secretariat in Abuja while speaking with newsmen.
He said the national leadership of the party apart from constituting appeal panels for aggrieved chieftains to ventilate their views also set up a reconciliation committee.
He maintained that factions and tendencies always exist in political parties but however expressed confidence that the ruling party has tested mechanisms for conflict resolutions.
He said: “There is no way you will have congresses and there will be silence. There will always be someone who is not happy with the outcome, whether you have an election. Who loses feels he lost unfairly. If you consider how the positions are shared some people will feel they are more important than the number of slots they got.
“These issues are always there. And they are part of the political process. In every country and every party, all over the world, you have a caucus, factions, and tendencies. And they will not always agree. But at the end of the day, the mother of the party, the national headquarters must sit down and reconcile all the groups and impose discipline and ensure there is fairness. In the state where you hear people shouting, I am sure the Abdullahi Adamu-led National Reconciliation Committee will go to those states and listen to all sides and will tell you if you took too much or shortchanged. And adjustments will be made. It is part of the political process.”
Asked for his opinion on the last week defection of former Aviation Minister and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, Fani Kayode to the APC, the Kaduna governor said only those who facilitated the former Minister movement to the ruling could give reason for their action.
“I don’t comment on the decision and actions of the leaders of the party. They have the job of running the party and they have to make the judgment on who to bring into the party. And you know politics is a game of addition. So you want to add and add. And they have taken that decision. But I don’t comment on that because they are the ones running the party. If I bring someone to Kaduna and you asked the Kaduna state government to explain, I will explain. I don’t know how to run the party. I was deputy national Secretary for a short while and it was the only experience I had in party management. So I don’t comment on that.”
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