By Augustine Okezie, Katsina and AbdulGafar Alabelewe, Kaduna
The North West Consultative Forum of the All Progressive Congress (APC) has announced plans to hold a reconciliatory meeting with all aggrieved aspirants and members of the party across the states within the geo-political zone. A press statement made available to newsmen in Katsina State by the Office of the Director-General, New Media to the Katsina State Governor, said a committee will be assigned to each of the state to meet with party elders and the aggrieved members.The statement referred to a meeting of the forum hosted by Katsina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari, at the Katsina State Governor’s lodge in Abuja.
“The state level committee had the mandate of making all what is necessary to make the reconciliations before the commencement of the campaigns for the 2023 general elections. Those in attendance at the Abuja meeting, include the Chairman Progressive Governors Forum Governor Abubakar Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, National Organizing Secretary of the APC Suleiman Argungu, National legal adviser Barrister Ahmed Usman El-Marzuq and the Party’s National Vice Chairman North Central Bawa Rijau who served as an observer at the meeting,’ the statement read.
Similarly, while addressing Journalists at the weekend in Kaduna on steps being taken to reconcile aggrieved members of the ruling party, the zonal Publicity Secretary, Musa Mailafiya Mada, said several strategies were being adopted to bring unity and peace into the party. Although he was not specific of what actually led to disputes among the members that necessitated call for reconciliation, he simply said, “each state has peculiar problems to be resolved.”
He said the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu was on top of the situation as far as reconciliation of aggrieved members is concerned, adding that the zone is in full support of the Chairman in uniting the party ahead of the 2023 election. “I called for this engagement with you to discuss efforts being made and steps taken to strengthen our dear party the APC in our zone, the North west geopolitical zone and of course, the country in general, against 2023 general elections and beyond. It is evidently clear that at the zonal level we set the ball rolling by initiating number of programmes and policies that will help retain our party’s popularity in the zone,” he said.
Speaking further, he added that “here in the North West, we will not rest until we give every stakeholder and members alike the necessary sense of belonging they deserve. And I am confident that our National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu is taking steps towards doing the needful in uniting the membership of our great party across the country. The National Chairman should be rest assured that here in the North West we support him especially with example he sets to us in Zamfara State which made the party more formidable in the State.”