Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker Extraordinary Convention, Mai Mala Buni, has indicated plans by the party to hold a rancour-free national convention.
According to a signed statement by the national secretary of the CECPC, John James Akpanudoedehe, the Yobe state Governor expressed the APC’s readiness “to meet up with the tasks ahead in 2022,” stating that the caretaker committee was ready to go ahead with the conduct of the national convention.
He said the committee will hand over to the incoming leaders of the party a structure that will continue to install and entrench APC governments.
The statement further reel out achievements of the caretaker committee including the conduct of ward, local government, and state congresses to elect substantial party executives.
Also, the 13 member caretaker committee while delivering on its mandates has continued to break barriers and achieve truly remarkable milestones, following CECPC’s conduct of a nationwide membership registration, revalidation and register update exercise, APC is now unarguably the most populous political party in Nigeria with a membership base of over 40 million registered members,he stated.
Akpanudoedehe further indicated that the party was able to bring into its fold three serving state Governors and scores of parliamentarians from other political parties.
It was also able to scrutinized and pay inherited debts with respect to the services to the party in the past administration. It has ended and resolved inherited litigations and court cases instituted by many aggrieved members against the party for various reasons by reaching out to the aggrieved members who have consequently responded to the CECPC reconciliation.
Akpanudoedehe, further disclosed that the party has purchased the building housing the APC National Secretariat which was previously leased, and has been subsequently named as Buhari House, giving APC a permanent abode in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
It has established a National Reconciliation Committee under the leadership of Sen. Abdulahi Adamu to reach out to aggrieved members, in the current dispensation, with the view to resolving areas of misunderstanding and proactively preventing a crisis. The committee has received various memoranda and has recorded a good number of resolutions that have improved the Party’s cohesion subsequently.
Since the coming of CECPC, it has been engaging and entrenching in the party processes, previously marginalised groups such as the youths, women, and persons with disabilities and hereby enriching the democratic experience of the party.
The party appreciated the National Assembly leadership and the APC legislative caucus, the Tripartite Consultative Committee of the Executive and other stakeholders for their total support, collaboration, and understanding towards CECPC.
Speaking on Election promises, the he said, “We deeply appreciate Nigerians for reposing confidence in APC as a party and government from inception to date. On our part, APC will continue to keep and fulfill our election promises by taking citizens out of poverty through massive social investments, revamping the economy, securing lives and property, and ultimately tackling corruption and impunity from their root causes.
We will continue building and improving infrastructure in the transportation, power, telecommunications and agriculture sectors to further drive economic growth.
This government has made record investments and intervention in improving the nation’s security architecture. The APC leadership commends the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Administration for relentlessly supporting the security forces with enhanced and sophisticated air, land and sea defense assets to raise the level of their operational readiness, efficiency and capacities so as to ensure that the country returns to its safe and peaceful state.
The party strongly reaffirms that governments at all levels elected on its platform will continue to articulate and implement policies and programmes that will enhance the collective wellbeing of Nigerians in 2022 and beyond. Driven by patriotism and the critical needs of the people of Nigeria, APC will sustain the current trajectory of national renewal, the impact of which will become more profound and pronounced in the coming months when ongoing developmental projects become increasingly operational.
