The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has commenced reconciliation moves to bring back the Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the last governorship election in Ekiti State, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele back to the party.
Bamidele who is the House of Representatives member representing Ekiti Central FederalConstituency 1 defected to the LP in acrimonious circumstances from the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) shortly before the birth of the APC.
The Nation gathered that the APC national leadership is wooing Bamidele to enlist his support for the candidacy of its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in the February 14 poll.
The APC Deputy National Chairman (South), Chief Segun Oni, held a closed door meeting with Bamidele and his followers in the LP at the federal lawmaker’s residence in Iyin-Ekiti on Saturday.
Sources present at the meeting revealed that Oni reportedly appealed to Bamidele to bury the hatchet on his political feud with Fayemi and the APC leadership in the state urging him to support , Buhari ahead of the February 14 presidential poll.
Speaking with reporters after he emerged from the meeting hall, Oni said he was in Iyin-Ekiti to pay a solidarity visit to Bamidele, stressing that his party has a future with Bamidele and his political disciples. Bamidele also revealed that he was under tremendous pressure from both the APC and the PDP but he would have to make wide consultations before deciding on his next line of action.He said his meeting with the APC leadership was part of the ongoing realignment of politics in the run-up to the 2015 general elections.
Bamidele added that he would want to support the emergence of a government that would be able to provide employment for teeming youths, fight corruption and insecurity in the land.
Source: The Nation
