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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, has boasted that no planned mega party in the country can survive the ruling party.
The APC National Chairman who made this remark in Edo State on Tuesday, noted that the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar were not planning to form any mega party as widely speculated in some quarters.
Mr. Oyegun stated that those behind the planned mega party should be encouraged so as to have a formidable opposition to the APC.
Mr. Oyegun who boasted that the ruling party has performed well, stressed that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was working hard to end the ongoing economic recession in the country.
According to him, “Now we are pushing agriculture and most Nigerians are in the field. We are pushing extractive minerals which, of course, is virtually all over the country; a lot of Nigerians will be involved in that enterprise.
“We are pushing power generation and distribution because that will also energise the small and medium scale industry. So, we want an economy in which most Nigerians are participants; it is no longer oil which is highly technologically based.
“So, it is a different reality we are trying to build and establish. It involves sacrifices and hard work, but what is necessary today is that we are focused. What is real today is that the government of Buhari is passionate about seeing the thing to its logical conclusion.
“This nation must change, and the change is so fundamental. There is no question, at all, that a lot of people are going through temporary hardship, but the situation is such that tomorrow, everybody will be glad we pursued this line of development in spite of the problems we are facing currently,” he said.
“We are waiting for the arrival of Tinubu, so we can also meet with him and have meaningful discussion because he is a well respected leader of this party.
“We don’t feel threatened at all, no mega party will survive the APC. I don’t know where the name mega party suddenly came from in the lexicon of politics in this country. When two people gather to have a meeting it is a mega meeting. We don’t feel threatened, we will, in fact, encourage a mega party, because with the gradual collapse of PDP, we want a party that can make us sit upright and be on our toes in terms of delivery of services to our people.
“A party that will make us feel challenged, that will make democracy real and offer the people a real choice. We are not threatened at all, we are focused on our mission made difficult by the current economic situation worldwide, which, of course, is compounded with the collapse of the oil market.
“We are reforming this country, reforming it ethically, morally and economically by building a fresh economic base which will no longer depend on an extractive industry which does not involve the people,” Oyegun said.
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