Secretary, Ondo Reconciliation Committee, Hon. Shina Peller, has described as timely, the intervention of the Reconciliation Committee, which helped saved the State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from a looming crisis in the build up to the governorship primary election held on June 20, 2020.
Before the primary election, eleven out of the twelve governorship aspirants had threatened to boycott the exercise and even decamp to opposition partys should the national leadership of the APC go ahead to conduct indirect primary in the State.
The Caretaker/Extra Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee headed by governor Mai Mala Buni had set up the Reconciliation Committee chaired by the Governor of Niger State, Sanni Bello ahead of the governorship primaries in the state.
But speaking at the APC National Secretariat, Peller said that the committee’s timely intervention saved the crisis situation.
Speaking to journalists, he said: “Even from the result from the Primary Election, you can see that the Reconciliation Committee has done a very good job.”
In continuing, he said: “When a party is in government, it is normal for such party to have challenges which is the reason we have the challenges among our party’s members in Ondo State which led to the constitution of the Reconciliation Committee of which I am the Secretary.
“Since the commencement of the reconciliation process, we have had several meetings.
“First, we had stakeholders meeting with the National Assembly members who had been involved in 2019 election to give us an information of what is going on ground and after that we had another meeting to know the stakeholders from Ondo State that will be invited to Abuja in order to have a right information about the issues that caused the rift in Ondo State.
This gave us clear sense of direction which led us to travel to Ondo State where we were able to first of us meet with all the aspirants including the incumbent governor.”
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