The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), John Oyegun, has assured that the party is working around the clock to resolve the crisis that has rocked it in recent times.

"The party has reached out to all interested parties, and when the National Assembly resumes next week, Nigerians will see one harmonious, happy APC family," Oyegun said in a statement in Abuja yesterday.

"'We owe it to our party, our teeming members and supporters and indeed all Nigerians who reposed so much confidence in us by voting us into office to quickly put the unfortunate incidents of the recent past behind us and forge ahead," he said.

He defended APC secretary La Mohammed, who is being vilified in his home state of Kwara for signing the statement conveying the party's reaction to the election of the National Assembly leadership on June 9th.

"The party is aware that its National Publicity Secretary has been grossly misunderstood by virtually everyone, especially in his state, just because he carried out his duty by signing the said statement by the party.

"At a personal risk and putting the party's interest above his own,he issued that statement which reflected the position of the party at that particular time. The party is solidly behind him, and it will be wrong for anyone to interpret the statement as representing his personal opinion," the APC Chairman said.

Some groups and individuals from Kwara State have derided the APC spokesperson over the APC stand on Bukola Saraki?'s emergence as the senate president.

Both Senator Bukola Saraki and Lai Mohammed? came from Kwara State. Saraki served two terms as Kwara State governor before he was elected as a Senator while Lai Mohammed had at one time contested for the Kwara State governorship under the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).