A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Senator Gbenga Aluko, has urged members to forge stronger unity within the party to sustain its foremost position in the politics of the state.
He denied insinuations of attack on the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying it was shocking that an honest remark on the resolution of local disagreement within the party could be misinterpreted and manipulated in the social media to set him against the respected party national leader.
The former Senator was at the weekend on a visit to the party secretariat in Ado-Ekiti, where he said he was on a “familiarization and assimilation visit” to the leadership of the party and sought the support of the leadership to be accepted into the APC fold.
He appealed to the aggrieved members to sheathe their swords, explaining that taking internal crisis for resolution outside the state diminished the credibility and stature of the party leadership in the fountain of knowledge state blessed with wise and credible leaders.
Also at another meeting with the local government and ward chairmen of the party at his Ode-Ekiti country home, Aluko insisted that political structures within the party should not be encouraged because such tendency destroyed party cohesion, urging, however, that party leaders should listen to aggrieved members to ensure resolution of the crisis tearing the party into groups and structures.
Expressing displeasure over the misinterpretation of his remark on Tinubu, the former Senator said the party National Leader was a man he respected so much that he would not denigrate in the manner some mischief-makers were painting in the social media.
