Oshiomole Refutes Alleged Break-up in APC Leadership *Dismisses Galadima as threat

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, on Thursday said the party would not be distracted by the activities of some aggrieved persons, referring to the Reformed APC.

He said contrary to speculations, there is no break-up or distraction within the core APC leadership.

Oshiomhole also played down the threats posed by the Buba Galadima-led Reformed APC (R-APC), describing them as hired mercenaries used to try to destabilise the APC.

Speaking with journalists at the end of a closed-door session with APC lawmakers in the House of Representatives, he said: "There's no break up; my friend, if one Galadima of no particular political address says that he's not happy, that's fine; he has the right not to be happy, and if he now decides to call himself what he calls himself, I won't lose my sleep over that.

"We know those who are in the system; those who are in politics for bread and butter, that's their problem.

"We are engaging the real stakeholders I mean between the executive and the two arms of government, we have very important influential leaders that we are engaging."

Oshiomole said: "Now, if you have people who are being sponsored by those who taught that our convention would be a failure and they were expecting implosion.

"If you reviewed the headlines before the convention, there were stories like people are going to walk out of the convention, people will boycott the convention.

" But in the end, they were shocked to find that the President was seated, the Senate president was seated, the Vice President was seated, the Speaker of the House was seated, the National Leader...they couldn't stop what God has willed.

"So if after two weeks in pain that they were disappointed, you find mercenaries to be hired for a purpose but it's their right to be so hired but it will not cause any distraction within the core APC leadership."