AHEAD the 2015 general election, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced full reconciliation among its aggrieved members over its last month national congress, where its first elected national officers emerged.
The party, had immediately after its convention, set up a national reconciliation committee headed by the former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, who was saddled with reconciling its aggrieved members to prevent them from defecting to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or any other political partiy as being threatened by majority of them.
The Nigerian Tribune gathered that Atiku met with the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, behind closed doors on Thursday, at his Asokoro residence, Abuja for hours on the reconciliation move, during which strategies were reportedly mapped out on how to resolve members’ differences and stop the looming mass defection in the party
Though no official statement was issued after the closed doors meeting, the Nigerian Tribune learnt that Governor Amaechi, also a member of the party’s reconciliation committee, decided to visit Atiku for strategic reasons and to demonstrate his resolution of not defecting from APC as being speculated in some quarters immediately after the convention.
While the former vice president is believed to be interested in the presidential race, Amaechi is also said to be eyeing the vice presidency’s seat come 2015.
Source: Tribune
