The Allied Peoples Movement (APM) has dismissed claims of a crisis within its ranks insisting that the party remains united despite disagreements involving its South-South zonal chairpersons.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary Abubakar Yusuf in a statement on Thursday described the situation as misinformation blown out of proportion and said the party would resolve the disagreements.
He said the South-South town hall meeting of the party’s presidential candidate Seyi Makinde held in Uyo Akwa Ibom State was a huge success attracting strong support from residents and party members.
According to him Makinde’s longstanding professional ties to the Niger Delta where he worked in Edo Delta Akwa Ibom Bayelsa and Rivers states visited feel like a homecoming. He also noted that the candidate married a woman from the region.
‘We are emboldened by the appreciation of the people of the South-South to welcome home their own with a huge support base’ he said.
Reacting to the South-South chairmen’s actions the spokesperson said the party acknowledged their concerns though their response had gone too far.
‘There is no problem with the action of the chairmen. We agreed to disagree even though they have gone too far. It will be resolved’ he said.
The party maintained that the disagreement did not divide its ranks expressing confidence that it would settle the matter without derailing its political activities.
It also reaffirmed its commitment to Makinde’s Reset Agenda insisting that the presidential campaign would continue despite the controversy.
The spokesperson said the candidate would neither retreat nor surrender in his pursuit of what the party described as rescuing Nigeria from poverty economic hardship and maladministration under the present administration.