The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, John-Odigie Oyegun, has said the party owes no one any apology over its anti-corruption campaign.
APC National Chairman, John-Odigie Oyegun
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has said it has no apologies over the anti-corruption war of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
APC national chairman John-Odigie Oyegun said while addressing State House correspondents after a two-hour closed-door meeting the National Working Committee of the party held with Buhari at the State House in Abuja.
Oyegun said no matter whom corruption suspects were, President Buhari would have to fulfil the APC promise to cleanse the country of the rot that had been in the system in the last 16 years.
He said though many of the suspects were from one political party, the anti-corruption battle is not about witch-hunting.
“The APC is not in any way apologetic. We promised change, and there is a lot of rot in the system.
"This must be cleansed no matter whose ox is being gored. Wherever the tree is going to fall, let it be. We must get used to the fact that in the process of cleansing this nation, there is going to be a lot of bullet to bite. The APC has not been in office at national level in the last 10 16 years.
“So, the issue of whether somebody is PDP or not PDP does not arise. We have a nation to cleanse. The president has committed himself to that, and we should take it whatever way it comes. We’re not being apologetic about that at all. It has nothing to do with witch hunting. It just happened that the dramatist personal of the period all happened to be on one side of the political divide,” he said.