…sets up 9member committee to broker peace
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has appealed for caution in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, even as it tries to proffer political solutions to the senate president current code of conduct travail.
IPAC is the umbrella body of all the 29 registered political parties in the country. It is a voluntary association.
Briefing newsmen in Abuja yesterday, IPAC Secretary General, Godson Okoye said for the sake of peace and harmony, group has set up nine member committee to interface with the presidency and the senate president with the aim of resolving the seemingly differences between both parties.
“The war of attrition between the presidency and the leadership of the senate is very disturbing. And IPAC will hereby calls for a timely and amicable resolution of this rift in the interest of the country and democracy.”
Okoye also noted that the interest of the group is to ensure that the country enjoys the dividends of democracy, which can only come where there is peace and harmony in the country’s body polity.
He said: ” the interest of IPAC is to ensure we have harmony in the country.” he stressed that the Nigerians have struggled to ensure return of democracy and what was needed now is total harmony and “we want to see democracy full establishe.
While noting that despite the fact that the main actors in the crisis are members of same party, Okoye said that happenings in each of the political parties are also issues of concern to IPAC.
Okoye who was also responding to question on the crack in IPAC said that it was wrong to that the group was fractionalized, explaining that IPAC has only one leadership.
He blamed the management of the electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the perceived faction.
Okoye said it was wrong for INEC to elect leadership for the group as it not an appendage of the commission.
He also condemned the electoral body for allegedly harassing and intimidating their members. He cited Edo, Delta and Kogi.
IPAC scribe therefore called on “INEC to desist forthwith from acts of impunity that will overheat the polity.”
He was also positive that the committee to be put in place will do every ing possible to ensure peace and harmony.
-FRONTIERS NEWS
