Ahead of the All Progressives Congress National Convention Slated for February 2022, the chieftain of the APC and former member of the House of Representatives, Hon Patrick Obahiagbon, cautioned the party leadership against allowing personal and selfish interests to override the interest of the party.
Obahiagbon who was chief of staff to former national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, advised President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee to propound a pathway to the party ahead of the 2023 general election.
He gave the charge in Abuja in a letter of commendation to the chairman of the APC caretaker committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State.
A statement director-general, Press and Media Affairs, to the caretaker committee chairman, Mamman Mohammed, quoted Obahiagbon as stating in the letter: “The party interest is more paramount than parochial and self-centered agitations from a microscopic few.
“The facts are indubitably too plain to be contested, Your Excellency, that our great party was largely fractious and tottering at its perilous precipice and brinks, when both destiny and history beckoned on you to provide durable leadership for us all.
“It’s the considered opinion of the majority of our party members that Your Excellency has not just only steered the party away from avoidable cataracts and icebergs but that you have also enviably returned our party to its winning ways and glorious path”.
He further said the inspiring leadership style and consultative approach of Buni in addition to the “coruscating humility, visceral connectivity with the rank and file of the party and disciplined inter-personal skills has commended itself to all and sundry.”