A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Sam Nkire, has said the National Convention of the party is critical to winning the 2023 presidential election.
Nkire, a member of the board of trustees of the party, therefore urged the Acting National Chairman of the APC and Niger State Governor, Sani Bello, to ensure that the National Convention of the party holds as scheduled.
Nkire said these in a statement he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday, as he reacted to developments in APC.
He said, “Except the national convention comes and goes, the party cannot move forward to reach its destination of retaining power in 2023.
“Our President, Muhammadu Buhari is leading from the front and there is no reason whatsoever, why the ruling party should not be leading from the front.
“Nigerians elected us to lead and show the way out of the old order of political rascality, injustice and corruption and that is the legacy we must teach others to follow”.
Nkire added that the Acting National Chairman must continue to keep his eye on the ball and should deliver on the National Convention as promised, in order to “excite our teeming and loyal party members and disappoint our opponents and critics”.
The former National Chairman of the defunct Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) also advised the care-taker committee of the APC to limit the invitations to the National Convention to only those prescribed by Article 12, Section 1; Sub-section i – ix of the APC construction.