By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Borno State Governor, Mai Bunu, who chairs the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, has counselled the combatants in the party’s South South chapter to sheath the swords.
At a meeting in Abuja on Monday, he urged Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi; and Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, to work together and lead the efforts to reconcile aggrieved APC members and reposition the party in the South South.
Governorship elections are coming up in Edo and Ondo and legislative by-elections in Bayelsa and Cross River.
Buni urged Amaechi and Sylva to play lead roles in bringing together party members and stakeholders to ensure the success of the APC in the elections.
“We have agreed that both of us will work together”, Amaechi told journalists after the meeting, accompanied by Sylva.
The two party chieftains who were one time governors of Rivers and Bayesla States have been working at cross purposes.
The Minister of Transport who earlier arrived at the party Secretariat around 1:15 pm left after few minutes only to return with the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee to join the Minister of State for Petroleum at about 2pm for the closed door meeting that last almost an hour.
The political differences between the two South-South leaders in recent past have had a toll on the party’s fortune in the region.