Flush out PDP elements in our govt, Oshiomhole tells Buhari

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has frowned at the presence of Peoples Democratic (PDP) elements in theMuhammadu Buhari administration, and therefore called for their sack.
The party chair also described the recent coalition being led by the PDP and some aggrieved APC members as “a gathering of a million snails trying to outrun an antelope.” He spoke yesterday in Abuja while inaugurating other national officers of the party elected at its recent national convention, but who are not members of its National Working Committee (NWC).
The former Edo state governor said, “when Nigerians complain that they have not seen the change we promised in certain areas, it is because those agencies are still being managed by PDP elements.
“We are aware that even as at today, we still have a lot of PDP people occupying very important positions in federal agencies.
We will do everything possible to purge these elements out of the system because we are a party of change.
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 interfaces with power and if these agencies are in the hands of those who do not believe in our change agenda, then we cannot expect miracles from them.
And for those who are aggrieved as to how certain things are done, those who question that they do not seem to see the difference because substantially, PDP is still managing these agencies.
“So, we have a duty to convince the federal executive that we have no business, this government has no business with any PDP in sensitive federal agencies and using their old tactics in service delivery.
That, I believe is a task that all of us must pursue.
“I believe that we now must work consciously to ensure that in replacing, we replace sinners with believers.
Believers are those who are card-carrying members of our party and before we go outside the party family, we must convince ourselves that the persons we are taking, we are taking him because we do not have that particular expertise within the family, but even so, he must first take the card and demonstrate loyalty because if you do not believe in a process, you cannot be entrusted with the management of that process.” On the PDP-led Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), he said the group is a collection of old coaches, incapable of searching for energetic players but only settling for tired legs.
“We will do everything possible to assuage those who have genuine grievances who simply want fairness and justice.
I believe on your behalf, I can give them all the assurance that there will be justice, there will be fairness.
“However, for the mercenaries, who mistakenly joined the party because of what they can gain personally, not for the good of the country, not for the good of the party; they came in purely for greener pastures and they have found that they have had to work hard to plant the grass, to wet it, nourish it for it to become green and they cannot wait, they want to run, not because we have wronged them but because we just cannot satisfy a mercenary, for those ones, we will not only open the door, we are ready to open even the windows.”

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