2023: Disagreements In APC Won’t Affect Party – PGF Chair

Kebbi State Governor, Alhaji Atiku Bagudu says the dissent and differences in opinion among the All Progressives Congres (APC), members will in no way affect the party’s fortune in the 2023 elections.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Bagudu said that democracy affords everybody the opportunity to air his or her opinion on issues of public importance and that the party recognized that there was no way everyone in the party will speak with one voice.

Reacting to insinuations that the APC will be drowned as a result of the current dissenting voices within its ranks, the governor told State House correspondents in an interview at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, that dissent and differences in opinions are part of politics.

He said the purported disagreements among members of the ruling party would eventually help produce the best out of it which would in turn help in moving the society forward.

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He further said despite the observed disagreements, the party, under the current caretaker leadership, had been swelling in size with the arrival of more quality members, including serving governors and federal legislators.

According to him, “First, let us know that the distinction between democracy and possibly other forms of government is that there will be differences of opinion and the hope that such differences of opinion will from time to time bring out the best or move society forward.

“We have been a party that recognizes that there will never be one voice and we don’t pray that there will be one voice. We pray that people should be able to express themselves, bring different ideas, even when they conflict those ideas within the systems created by the democracy sit and iron them out.

“To suggest that because there is dissent or differences in opinion, that it will affect the fortune of our party, I think that is quite far-fetched. We are a party that recognizes that for us to continue to deliver, we must debate, we must compete, and we must bring ideas to government.

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