APC reconciliation committee calls for petitions

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, reconciliation committee, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has appealed to all aggrieved party members to forward written petitions to the committee.

Adamu said this after a meeting of the committee in Abuja, on Tuesday. He appealed to members who have taken the extra step of going to court to withdraw such cases in the interest of the party.

He said the committee is committed to finding solutions to all grievances either before or after the congress, saying “We don’t want to go to the convention as a divided

The Senator said, “We are not going to assume. We have to formalize it; party issues are not a one-man issue. It is a body of institutions composed of members of the party.

“Where there are complaints, we want to have them in writing, put it on record on what complaint and coming from where and from whom. We would arrange after compiling the complaints, we would arrange to have interaction directly with the sources of these complaints.

“Who are the principal persons behind the complaints then we will have a meeting with them.

“Then round up with the leaders of the party, so that we will also tap from their experiences and fair knowledge of what is happening to our party.

“By the time we do that we will have a complete package of the solutions that were provided. We will do our best to see that this assignment succeeds.

“Generally anybody that is aggrieved will petition, they will formally submit what is their grievances, what is offending them.

“We will not work on speculations; we want to have a formal presentation on the areas of conflicts and on the basis of that; we see how to approach our solution and efforts to reconcile the disagreeing parties.

“We don’t want to work with speculation. Anyone who is aggrieved should write formally to us, the committee.”