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My Worst Mistake as APC Chairman – Chief John Odigie-Oyegun

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: June 26, 2016
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has described as a bad mistake, his decision to call a meeting of federal lawmakers elected on the platform of his party on the day the eight National Assembly was inaugurated.

Oyegun, who opened up when asked by Daily Trust; “If you have another opportunity to change one decision you took in the past, what will that be?”, regretted that if he had not listened to the advice of those who persuaded him to do so, somebody from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would not have been elected as the deputy Senate President.

His words, “There are lots of decisions, not just one, some of which are private. If you want to limit it to the recent past, I would say the decision to call the meeting that took place on the day the National Assembly was inaugurated. That was a bad mistake.

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“I was persuaded and I agreed to call that meeting. Had it been it did not take place, we probably won’t have a PDP person there today as the deputy Senate president. The anger within the leadership of the party may not have turned out as strong as it became.”

Recall that following the inability of the majority APC senators and Reps members to decide on a consensus candidate to lead them at the inuguration of the eight National Assembly, the leadership of the ruling party had reportedly scheduled a meeting with the lawmakers for 9am the same day of inauguration which was billed for 10am.

But before some of the APC senators could return from the meeting which took place at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, their PDP colleagues have help elected Saraki as the Senate President, installing one of their own, Chief Ike Ekweremadu as the Deputy Senate President.

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