President Muhammadu Buhari says the All Progressives
Congress (APC) is back to life and has overcome the phase of litigations and
intra-party strife.
The president said the party has been revived, energised,
and repositioned for its national convention and future elections.
Buhari spoke on Friday at a meeting with members of the
national caretaker/extraordinary convention planning committee (CECPC) led by
Mai Mala Buni, governor of Yobe state.
The president hailed the committee for reorganising the party and reconciling members, and added that “with the work done by the committee the party has bounced back to life”.
He said: “I have listened with great interest the remarkable
job you have done so far.
“We are all witnesses to the crisis that engulfed the party
leading to litigations and presented a picture of selfishness and division.”
Buni, the chairman of the CECPC, said the committee
approached the duty with commitment and dedication to rescue the party from
imminent collapse.
“We are currently witnessing high powered decamping to our
party, including governors from the PDP,” he said.
“The party is now more peaceful, orderly and accommodating
than what we met on the ground. Although there was initial fear, the
mobilisation and sensitization was able to allay the fears of members.
“We have observed that youth and women constitute huge
population of the voting group.
“We had a youth and women committee, and also people with
disability.”
He said a contact and strategy team had been set up in every
state to come up with an acceptable template that would ensure transparency,
credibility and acceptability of the internal electoral processes.
Buni said the committee had also instituted a process to
review the party’s constitution and look into loopholes that usually fan
conflict and litigations among members, with more than 500 memoranda already
received.
The CECPC chairman added that the party members had agreed
to name the APC national secretariat after the president.
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