BEVERLY HILLS, July 12, (THEWILL) – Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has hinted that non-members of the party who are heading some government agencies are sabotaging the Federal Government and the party’s change agenda.
Oshiomhole said this on Wednesday in Abuja, while addressing the party’s newly elected National Executives of the 39 member non National Working Committee (NWC) declaring that henceforth, the party would no longer appoint non-members to oversee federal agencies.
He noted that a lot of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) members were still occupying important positions in federal agencies under the APC-led Federal Government, adding that they must be weeded out.
“We have a duty to do everything possible to purge these them out of the system, because we are a party of change and they are the conservative right wing party.
“We cannot entrust to conservative forces an agenda for change, government is not in the villa, villa is the head of government.
“Government is in the agencies, what they do, how they do it, the quality of service delivery and the style of that service delivery.
“That is how the ordinary man interface with power, when these agencies are in the hands of those who do not believe in our change agenda, then we cannot expect miracles from them.
“Therefore, we have a duty to convince the Federal Executive Council (FEC) that this government has no business maintaining PDP members in sensitive federal agencies and using their old tactics in service delivery,” he said.
The APC national chairman said the party’s executives must work consciously to ensure that in replacing such PDP members holding federal appointments, it must replace “sinners with believers.”
Oshiomhole affirmed that before the party goes outside its family to appoint anyone, it must be convinced that the person it was engaging had a particular expertise which was not within the party.
“But even so, he must first change the card and demonstrate loyalty, because if you don’t believe in a process, you cannot be entrusted in the management of that process.
“It is not because we are hungry to have our people have jobs, but because I have no confidence that PDP appointees can drive the changes that APC promised.
“APC promises must be kept by APC activists, at managerial level, board level and at political levels. While we are working on that, I urge you all to be patient,’’ Oshiomhole said.
