The ruling APC have begun moves to influence the sack of PDP appointees in Federal Government agencies.
This, the party said will ensure its change mantra is properly implemented across board, stressing that non-party members cannot run with a vision they do not share.
National chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomole revealed this while inaugurating elected national executives of the 39-member Non-National Working Committee at the party’s national secretariat, yesterday.
Oshiomole who revealed that the party was ready to interface with genuine party members, that were aggrieved, however warned that there was no place for those he referred to as ‘mercenaries’ in the party.
His words: “We are aware that even as at today, we still have a lot of PDP people occupying very important positions in federal agencies. We will do everything possible to purge these elements out of the system because we are a party of change.
“They are the conservative right-wing party. We cannot entrust to conservative forces an agenda for change. Government is not in the Villa. Villa is the head of government. Government is in the agencies – what they do, how they do it, the quality of service delivery and the style of that service delivery.
“That is how the ordinary man interfaces with power and if these agencies are in the hands of those who do not believe in our change agenda, then we cannot expect miracles from them. And for those who are aggrieved as to how certain things are done, those who question that they do not seem to see the difference because substantially, PDP is still managing these agencies.
“So, we have a duty to convince the federal executive that we have no business, this government has no business with any PDP in sensitive federal agencies and using their old tactics in service delivery. That, I believe is a task that all of us must pursue.
“I believe that we now must work consciously to ensure that in replacing, we replace sinners with believers. Believers are those who are card-carrying members of our party and before we go outside the party family, we must convince ourselves that the persons we are taking, we are taking him because we do not have that particular expertise within the family, but even so, he must first take the card and demonstrate loyalty because if you do not believe in a process, you cannot be entrusted with the management of that process.
“It is not because we are hungry to let our people have jobs, but because I have no confidence that PDP appointees can drive the changes that APC promised. APC promises must be kept by APC activists at managerial level, at board level and at political level. That, we must all work to achieve.”
Speaking on the newly formed Eeformed APC (R-APC), Oshiomole said: “We will do everything possible to assuage those who have genuine grievances who simply want fairness and justice. I believe on your behalf, I can give them all the assurance that there will be justice, there will be fairness.
“However, for the mercenaries, who mistakenly joined the party because of what they can gain personally, not for the good of the country, not for the good of the party; they came in purely for greener pastures and they have found that they have had to work hard to plant the grass, to wet it, nourish it for it to become green and they cannot wait, they want to run, not because we have wronged them but because we just cannot satisfy a mercenary, for those ones, we will not only open the door, we are ready to open even the windows.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of APC members in Ondo state have defected to the newly formed African Democratic Congress (ADC) backed by former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo.
The mass defection was due to the the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the PDP and some other political parties, including the R-APC in Abuja recently.
The former APC members, led by Adeola Ademulegun announced their defection at a rally held in Ondo, headquarters of Ondo West local government area of the state.
Naij.com
