Adamawa APC mends fences, forms 8-man reconciliation committee

By Jude Opara

The All Progressives Congress, (APC), has started a fence-mending mission in Adamawa State by constituting a reconciliation committee of eight prominent members.
The committee, headed by Senator Muhammed Mana as Chairman, is to reconcile members with complaints against each other or the party and strengthen the party’s unity in Adamawa State.
The APC National Vice Chairman, North East, Mustapha Salihu told a meeting of the Adamawa State chapter in Yola that the reconciliation committee which has Senators Bello Tukur, Abubakar Girei, Binta Masi Garba, and Martins Babale as members, had already started sitting and making consultations in Abuja and would soon move down to Yola.
Other members of the committee are Yusuf Buba Yakubu and Dr Bridget Zidon, with Isa Baba as Secretary.
A statement from the Adamawa State Secretariat of the APC, released to newsmen yesterday by the state Publicity Secretary, Mohammed Abdullahi, said Mustapha Salihu at whose instance the Yola APC unity meeting was convened after an earlier meeting with National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, in Abuja, told the Yola unity meeting that the high-powered 8-man committee was tasked to reconcile party members and ensure party cohesion.
At the unity meeting in Yola were the National Vice Chairman North East, all members of the State Executive Committee, local government party chairmen and the eight APC members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
“The purpose of the meeting is to further solidify on earlier meeting held in Abuja with the NSA, who is the leader of the party that emphasized on genuine reconciliation and unity in the party,” the APC explained in its statement.
There had been complaints by many APC members who spoke of dwindling party popularity in Adamawa State, with several influential members either already leaving to other parties or threatening to leave.