APC conflict: Odigie-Oyegun wants aggrieved parties to embrace compromise

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has called on all aggrieved groups in the National Assembly debacle to embrace compromise.
Odigie-Oyegun spoke to newsmen at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja on Thursday on efforts made by the party to reconcile aggrieved parties.
He further urged the parties to sheathe their swords in the interest of the party in particular and Nigeria in general.
“For me, I think that there is no other way to resolve the conflict other than for all of us to accept compromise. It is only when we lose face that we can move forward,’’ he said.
Some party members, who believe in the supremacy of APC in the choice of the leadership of the National Assembly, rejected the leaders chosen by lawmakers who thought otherwise.
Therefore, all has not been well in the party since the swearing-in of Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara, as the Senate President and Speaker, respectively on June 9.
Saraki and Dogara had defied APC’s directives by contesting their current positions as the party favoured Senator Ahmed Lawan as Senate President and Femi Gbajabiamila as Speaker, respectively.
Also, letters sent to both chambers by the party as regards its choice for other principal officers were rebuffed as all the party’s candidates were not chosen.