Politics
As feud lingers, APC sets up committee to reconcile Bello, Melaye
In bid to reconcile the warring factions of Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, and Senator Dino Melaye, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Odigie-Oyegun, on Monday in Abuja, inaugurated a seven-member reconciliation committee for the party’s Kogi State chapter at the party’s national secretariat.
The committee is chaired by Gen. Idris Garba(retd.), and has as members, Chief Don Etiebet, Patricia Etteh, Group Capt. Rufai Garba(retd.), Alhaji Umar Lawan Kareto, Group Capt. Joe Orji (retd.), and the party’s Deputy National Secretary, Victor Giadom, who will serve as secretary.
At the inauguration, Oyegun thanked members of the reconciliation committee for agreeing to serve the party in that capacity, stating that the party’s leadership wanted a peaceful resolution of all issues in its Kogi State chapter.
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He said, “The situation in Kogi is unique. And we want to give every possible opportunity for a settlement. What triggered the events in Kogi was very tragic in their nature.
“So for us as a party, we are bending over backwards to say, yes we understand your feelings; we understand what you have been through; we understand the work that you have put in to get the APC elected; we understand also that God who disposes of power, brought somebody at the last minute to be the beneficiary of all the work and labour that everybody obviously has put in.”
Responding on behalf of the committee, Garba thanked the party for choosing the committee members for the assignment and expressed their resolve to bring peace to the party in the state.
It will be recalled that Bello and Melaye have been involved in a long-drawn bitter feud that took an interesting twist when the governor apparently engineered the now-stalled effort to recall the senator. Their disagreement had also assumed a violent dimension, as attacks leading to death and injuries have been recorded amidst allegations and counter-allegations of culpability.
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