Janet Samuel, Abuja
North Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Stakeholders/Elders Forum has commended the National Chairman of the party, Umar Ganduje for his laudable achievement within a short period.
This was made known during the solidarity visit to the National Chairman at the party Secretariat on Wednesday, in Abuja.
Speaking on behalf of the Forum, the Ex-Senate President of the 6th Assembly in the Second Republic, Sen. Ameh Ebute, noted that the move became imperative as a way of appreciating Ganduje for his exceptional achievements upon his assumption of office.
He noted that the group is a representative of the leadership and members of APC across States in North Central Nigeria, which includes communities in Benue, Plateau, Kogi, Niger, Nasarawa, FCT, and Kwara States.
“We have by our own free will, and as a collective of true progressives, decided to pay Your Excellency this solidarity visit because we believe this is the best time to physically express our appreciation of the great things you have been doing for our great Party since you were sworn into the office of the National Chairman. Therefore, this is a solidarity visit to our respected National Chairman by Party members of North Central Nigeria to ask and demand that you continue to do more for our Party.
“While we acknowledge the efforts of these advocates of returning the Chairman’s office to North Central Zone, we however, believe that the more compelling reason for anybody to advance the manner of person that will occupy the office of the National Chairman of our Party should be about consideration for track record of performance as shown in winning political contests against the opposition. Equally important is how the rank and file members of the Party are directly benefiting from the activities of the Party across the country.
“When we put all these together, we came to the conclusion that you, Your Excellency, ticks all the boxes for a performing excellent Chairman. Indeed, you’re not just a performing National Chairman but a National Chairman that had done the most in the shortest possible time to positively impact individual members of our great party while our party have also recorded impressive electoral strides bereft of rancour under your leadership.” Ebute noted.
“By these considerations, we hereby declare our unalloyed support for you, Your Excellency, to continue to manage the affairs of our great Party, the APC and to remain in the office of the National Chairman, for the good and development of members of the Party especially for the purpose of ensuring stability in the administration of our great Party.”
The fomèŕ Senate President appreciated the various achievements of the former Governor of Kano State, most importantly. the digitization of the party’s membership registration which he described as unprecedented in the political history of the country.
Responding, Ganduje vowed to fulfilled all the promises made during his inauguration into the office, adding that no stone will be left unturned until all is achieved.
“We promised our party and Nigerians that business is not going to be as usual in APC. We promised to undertake some innovations which we have started. Reconciliation is a very important factor in democracy. Reconciliation is very important for the stability of our political party. Reconciliation is a vital issue for success.
“ Also we promised that there will be electronic registration of the membership of our party which we have already started. It is so vital because democracy is changing, democracy is getting advanced in Nigeria. To win an election we need to consider so many variables, we need to have accurate data with the necessary features that we can forecast.
“Also, we decided in order for our party to have identity, a strong philosophy, a very strong direction, we have gone far to establish the Progressive Institute for our party. This will educate our members in the nitty gritty of democracy; enlighten our members; the institutions that are in charge of elections like the INEC, security agents, the political parties themselves and also to enlighten our monitors to see how far our manifesto is being implemented.” Ganduje said
He commended the group for their support to assist President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to deliver on his Renewed Hope Agenda, appealling for more collaboration to rebuild the economy.
He said, “Your zone is a good example of unity in diversity because your geopolitical zone is a good example of diversity in politics – different religions, tribes, ethnic nationalities. Yet, you are able to come together under an umbrella we call APC. We have to thank you for that.
