A foremost group within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the All Progressives Youth Forum (APYF) has transitioned to The Progressives Forum (TPF) for greater inclusion, wider reach, better representation and more strategic engagements.
The founder of the forum Barrister Ismaeel Ahmed said the transformation to TPF was to enable the group to accommodate more party members for its strategic plan to deliver victory to the party and its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the forthcoming general election next year.
Ahmed, who was a youth leader in the defunct Governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party, said the forum was set to mobilise party members, galvanise and garner public support for the Tinubu/Kashim Shetimma ticket during the general election.
Shedding more light on the forum, Ahmed said the objective of the group was to take part and take charge in governance, to add value, and provide policy direction and policy execution through the various members of the forum who are aides and appointees to political office holders.
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He expressed satisfaction that in the years of APYF, members of the group have taken elective and appointive positions that have added value to the government and impacted the well-being of the people and the performance of government.
He said: “Our mission is to take our destiny into our hands. We want to anchor the pool for professionals to take charge of policy-making and running the party structures. We want to bring our expertise and training to bear on the party structures and governance. We will be pushing for cabinet positions for our members and everybody involved in progressive ideology.”
Tracing the development of the forum, Ahmed said after 7 years, the group has expanded its frontiers to accommodate more like minds, hence the transition from APYF to The Progressives Forum (TPF) to ensure the victory of the party and its presidential flag bearer in the 2023 general election.