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By Egena Sunday Ode
President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the All Progressives Congress (APC) Women Presidential Campaign Committee to develop and implement a collective party strategy that will ensure that the ruling party retains the presidency next year, saying “there’s no alternative to our victory”.
“Considering the strategic role women have played in APC victories, we call on you once again to begin organizing and mobilizing vigorously the electorate at all levels for APC victory at the 2023 polls through the committee in an inclusive and cooperative manner.
“The inauguration of APC Women Presidential Campaign Committee today is the most crucial component of the 2023 campaign. To this end, I call on all members of this committee to take up this great responsibility as a testament of your selfless service to the APC. I strongly believe that this committee will take the APC to greater heights by developing and implementing a collective and inclusive party’s strategy to ensure APC victory in the 2023 election because there is no alternative to our victory,” the President said.
He also advised the leadership and supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to concentrate more on far flung places, rather than Abuja, as they embark on the 2023 presidential campaigns.
He emphasized that the battle grounds are the 8000 wards and 774 local governments where the party”s campaign messages should be spread.
Represented by his Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the President who is also the Chairman of the APC Presidential Campaign Committee spoke at the inauguration of APC Women Campaign Committee held at the Conference Hall in Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja on Monday.
“As this launch is being hosted in Abuja, we must remember that the real war lies in far flung places away from Abuja. The task ahead lies in over 8000 wards and 774 local governments across the country, where party faithful will have to make a case before fellow citizens on our party’s candidate articulating the vision and the programme for the country.
“The campaign, therefore, should recede the temptation for it to be turned into an Abuja centric activity but establish the connection between the voting public and our presidential candidate, and for other candidates for offices throughout Nigeria, that should be the ultimate objective,” he said.
Buhari eulogised the Nigerian women for playing a significant role in his election and reelection as president in 2015 and 2019 respectively, urging them to extend the same support to the APC presidential candidate and his running mate.
He also made a case for gender justice and urged the APC women to liaise with the First Lady, Aisha Buhari and the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, to make legislation that would further advance the cause of women in governance.
He said: “Throughout my political journey and my tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, women have remained the most loyal and supportive group in my mission for a better Nigeria despite the challenges. They should extend this same support to our presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Kashim Shettima. As we prepare for the 2023 general elections, my administration has continued to listen to the strong voices of our women for gender justice, social inclusion, and adequate participation in the affairs of their country and in accordance with global, regional, and national conventions, agreements, protocols, and policies to which Nigeria is a signatory. It is in this regard that I hereby direct the Honourable Attorney General and Minister of Justice in conjunction with Honourable Minister of Women Affairs to work closely with the Office of the First Lady in ensuring that important legislations that can be brought before the National Assembly in furtherance of entrenching constitutional change and legal change and creating a level playing field for our women to be carried out assiduously.
“Considering the strategic role women have played in APC victories, we call on you once again to begin organizing and mobilizing vigorously the electorate at all levels for APC victory at the 2023 polls through the committee in an inclusive and cooperative manner.”
Also speaking at the event, the APC Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu described the inauguration of the committee as kick starting campaign of prosperity for Nigeria.
He said his emergence as president will break the shackle of poverty, destitution and hopelessness, declaring that “a new hope is here”.
APC National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu hailed the committee, urging the women members and supporters of the party to “carry the part’s banner and sweep the country clean.”
