By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
After months of dilly-dally, the All Progressive Congress (APC) yesterday announced that the party’s National Convention will be held on the 26th of February, even as the party kept mute about the venue and the zoning formula to be adopted in sharing the various party offices.
Declaring the date for the convention while presenting his speech at the International Conference Centre (ICC) during the National Progressives Women Conference in Abuja, the Yobe State Governor who is also the Chairman of APC Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Mai Mala Buni, also charged the women to participate actively in the party’s Convention and in the forthcoming general elections.
He said “We look forward to having more women contesting in the forthcoming National Convention of the party slated for February 26th, 2022 and the 2023 general elections.
“The party under my stewardship conducted the membership registration and revalidation exercise. We found it expedient to constitute a Special committee on Women and youth before the commencement of the exercise.
“The roles you played made the membership registration and revalidation exercise a huge success”, he said.
According to the Governor, APC has over 41 million registered members, “this figure has asserted our position as Africa’s largest political party and of course, Nigeria’s leading political party.
“With this, we are confident of winning the 2023 general with huge success”, he celebrated.
Bni emphasized that women constitutes a large proportion of Nigeria’s population with a good number of them doing the nation proud.
“You remain the best mobilizers of support to any political party and its candidates. You have always been there on queue on election days to determine the fate of candidates” he said.
He assured the support of the party to youth and women to actualize their political ambitions.
Gov. Buni admonished women to spread the message of peaceful elections. “You should enlighten your spouses, children, brothers, in-laws, neighbours and the larger society that, we must not see election as a do or die affair. We should promote peaceful elections and service delivery against personal gains.
“Let me once again assure you that APC will continue to support you, and to support you generously” he assured.
