The Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, has waded into the lingering crisis in the All Progressives Congress (APC), urged the chairman of the party Abdullahi Ganduje to constitute reconciliation committees that would resolve grievances of members of the party and unite them.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
Speaker Abbas noted that some members of the APC were aggrieved, which was why there was the need to reconcile and make peace with them.
Speaking at the APC stakeholders’ meeting for the Northwest in Kaduna on Sunday, the Speaker said such action would bring more successes to the APC as one big political family.
He said, “I want to call on the National Chairman and our party Executive to ensure peaceful co-existence among all party members. As previous speakers have said, we are bedevilled with many issues in different states, in every local government.
“It is time to draw a line. Elections are over; this is time for governance. We should forget what has happened; let’s forgive one another; let’s embrace one another.
“I want to suggest to the National Chairman, and by extension the National Vice Chairman, to, as a matter of urgency, constitute reconciliation committees.
“Each zone and for every state constitute the same reconciliation committees so that we can make peace and bring those that we may have offended back to the party.”
Speaker Abbas also urged Ganduje to use his position in addressing the high turnover rate of members of the National Assembly, saying APC members that perform well should be given the opportunity to return in 2027.
“On the issue of the high turnover of members of the National Assembly, this is a golden opportunity under your tenure to ensure that you do everything humanly possible for current (APC) members of the National Assembly and States Houses of Assembly to return in 2027.
“Some people may say there are others waiting. But I need to emphatically mention that the National Assembly is an institution where the older you are in the system, the better you become.
“Today, the Northwest, based on the 2023 elections, is worse off.
“That is the reason, perhaps, we did not get the kind of prominence we should have gotten. So, let’s ensure that only the worst of us do not get reelected.
“We should give the competent ones the opportunity to return to the National Assembly.”