I remain APC member, Buhari is my candidate- Fmr publicity secretary

Notwithstanding the in-house crisis rocking the party, Comrade Godwin Erhahon, former Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo State chapter, has reiterated that he has no intention to defect from the ruling party as being speculated by rumour mongers.

He noted that his attention has been drawn to the activities of some recent defectors from APC who are dropping his name as one of the leaders that have resolved to defect from the party.

The former CPC State Chairman said: “Reports reaching me from my associates across Edo State say that the defectors are going about telling aggrieved APC members that I have agreed to defect to one of the opposition parties at the expiration of the ongoing period of mourning my late wife who died last June.

“I hereby assure all that I have no intention to defect from APC. While I share the grievances of those who are protesting the politics of bitterness, exclusion, victimization and blackmail that has recently bedevilled our hitherto united and harmonious APC.

“I have no plan to quit my party for such usurpers and opportunists or whosoever. I equally share the grouse of my associates from the CPC legacy across the country  over how President Muhammadu Buhari has abandoned us after years of toiling with him.

“The above grievances are to the essence to which they are true, justified and as such deserve urgent redress. But they are in my opinion,  too personal and too selfish to erode our faith in the sincere commitment of President Buhari to salvage Nigeria from the decay to which past leaders have plunged our beloved country.”

Furthermore, he stressed: “I therefore appeal to my fellow patriots in APC and beyond to endure and tolerate the offensive antics of those who want to selfishly claim the glory for our common achievement as APC .

“Let us continue to support President Buhari in the challenging task of rebuilding our vandalized and looted country.

“Everyone should note that as the former State Chairman who led the CPC legacy into APC in the merger of 2013 in Edo, as co-founder and not as decampee, I can neither belong to a faction nor submit to the dictatorship or manipulation of any self-serving leader or cabal.

“At the risk of continuing victimization and deprivation, I shall continue to speak the truth as I know it in my belief that time will always vindicate the just,” he opined.