APC not ‘food-is-ready’ party – Oyegun

“In spite of the obvious difficulties that the nation is passing through, people like you voluntarily wanted to assist in this responsibility of helping in nation building. “I know that those who don’t wish us well often tend to misinterpret some of this happening as running away thinking that they would have protection from the EFCC. Of course, I am not aware in your case that anybody is harassing you with the EFCC. In any case, it is obvious and played out today that we do not offer sanctuary to anybody running from the arms of the law. The evidence is all over the place,” Oyegun said while receiving Senator John Enoh, who defected from PDP to APC some 48 hours ago.

The National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the party will not offer sanctuary to anybody running away from the arms of the law.

Chief Odigie-Oyegun said Thursday at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, following the speculations that some of the politicians defecting to the APC were doing so to get protection from their ongoing corruption trials in the hands of the anti-graft agencies.

The APC national chairman spoke when he received a former Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, and Senator John Enoh who recently defected to the ruling party in Cross River State.

Odigie-Oyegun, who said the APC was not a ‘food-is-ready’ party, said the South-south people were, however, happy over the decision of the two key political figures since the ruling party did not have the presence it ought to have in the zone.

He said the APC needed a strong presence in the South-south because “traditionally”, the zone had been the heart of the unity and oneness of the nation during and after the civil war.

He said, “In spite of the obvious difficulties that the nation is passing through, people like you voluntarily wanted to assist in this responsibility of helping in nation building.

“I know that those who don’t wish us well often tend to misinterpret some of this happening as running away thinking that they would have protection from the EFCC. Of course, I am not aware in your case that anybody is harassing you with the EFCC. In any case, it is obvious and played out today that we do not offer sanctuary to anybody running from the arms of the law. The evidence is all over the place.”