The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has said that he was not intimidated out of the race for a second term at the helm of affairs of the party.
Odigie-Oyegun made this known in an interaction with journalists in his Abuja home recently.
Asked if he was intimidated out of the office as is being believed in several quarters, Odigie-Oyegun said, “I wasn’t intimidated out. I took into consideration, and I was influenced by my own consideration of what is in the best interest of the APC. I have relatively been stubborn. I have been through several intense opposition with some saying ‘Oyegun must go’, but I said there was no reason why Oyegun should go and I held to the point of principle and what makes me so happy today is that in all the virility or intensity of the attacks, it was easy to locate it. And it was easy to see that by and large, the top leadership of the party was on my side. That is something that gives me intense satisfaction. So, I was not intimidated out of the race, I only just thought of Oyegun being in the front or back pages of newspapers every day and being the famous whipping boy of the social media, maybe we should let somebody else bring some different air into the system, and that was all. It was in the interest of the party that I do not become the problem or the major part of the problem.”
The National Elective Convention of the party holds on Saturday, June 23.