Member representing Ankpa/Omala/Olamaboro federal constituency, Hon. Hassan Atayoma Omale, has stated that reconciliation was possible if vexed issues in the state’s party were addressed.
Speaking with Daily Post in Abuja, he said, those conditions were payment of Kogi workers’ salaries, dissolution of state executive and consideration of a sizeable number of those who worked for APC in the state.
Welcoming the reconciliatory committee set up by the John Odigie Oyegun-led National Executive Committee of the party last week, he expressed concern that the development was rather late, if damages done to the party at the state level was anything to go by.
He emphasised that those who worked with the late Prince Abubakar Audu must be captured in political appointments by governor Yahaya Bello.
“It was late Prince Abubakar Audu group who worked for the success of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi state which Bello is enjoying and some of those people must be considered for appointments.
“Moreso, the state APC is under imminent collapse if workers’ salaries remain unpaid for any reason because these are people who voted for the party,” he stressed.
Explaining the frustrations over the governor’s recalcitrance to party issues, the legislator revealed that all lawmakers from the state tried to reach out to the governor to no avail.
He added that over 80% of those in Bello’s cabinet were a mixture of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and non-party members, insisting that the composition was unsustainable for APC’s continuity come 2019.
He, however, confirmed that Prince Tony Momoh led reconciliatory committee which was set up last week has reached out to aggrieved lawmakers from the state.
