The All Progressives Congress (APC) members of the national
assembly have resolved to work towards the emergence of consensus candidates at
the party’s national convention.
The APC convention is scheduled to hold on Saturday, March
26.
Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker
of the House of Representatives, led the APC caucus in the national assembly on
a visit to President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.
Speaking with state house correspondents, Gbajabiamila
described the meeting as productive, saying the purpose was to encourage all
stakeholders to unite and have a peaceful and successful convention.
“Mr President invited
the principal officers of the APC to hold today’s meeting with us. Mr
President, emphasised the need for us, in the APC to be united, always act as a
family, to ensure that we remain focused,” he said.
“We have the leadership of Nigeria today at the national
level and of course, we have many states, about 22 states, under the leadership
of the APC. That requires that APC, as a
political party, remains very focused, energetic, and purposeful, as it has
always been, and ensure that we maintain the trajectory of development for our
country.
“Because that is the trust Nigerians gave us in 2015 and
renewed that, in 2019.
“Mr President also emphasised the need for us to ensure that
we have a successful convention on the 26th of this month, March. This
convention, by way of emphasis, is a very important convention for us in the
APC, and by the grace of God, through our processes and procedures, at
different levels of the party, the convention would be a very successful one
and very peaceful one.
“We hope that we would have achieved so much consensus in
selecting and electing the officers for this party so that when we go into the
convention, most of the officers would be for affirmation or confirmation.”
Asked if the party has agreed on a consensus candidate for
the position of APC national chairman, Gbajabiamila expressed optimism that by
Friday, all stakeholders would have reached a decision.
“The essence of this engagement is for the party to achieve
consensus, and consensus is a process. It doesn’t just happen like that,” he said.
“So I believe that
before we go into the convention square on Saturday, by the grace of God, we
would have a lot of consensuses reached and maybe the sort of document that we
call or refer to as unity list, that is bringing all the agreed positions where
consensus have been achieved in the various sections or geopolitical zones of
the country.”
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