APC Consultative Meeting Urges Candidates To Run Inclusive, Issue-Based Campaigns
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – A consultative meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made up of National Working Committee (NWC), the Party’s 2019 election governorship candidates, state chairmen and state secretaries at the Party has frowned at what it described as “attempts by some Party leaders to polarise the Party” in some states following post-primary disputes.
Accordingly, the Consultative meeting which took place at National Secretariat of the Party in Abuja, resolved that Party leaders must campaign for all candidates of the Party (Presidential, governorship and legislative positions).
The meeting noted that a situation where leaders engage in selective support by picking and choosing candidates to campaign for and support is viewed as anti-party.
The meeting also called on its governorship candidates to run an issue-based campaign based on what it described as the “unprecedented” achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration which is evident in all the states of the federation.
A statement at the end of the meeting by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu, also urged the Party’s governorship candidates to run an inclusive campaign by bringing on board former aspirants.
The meeting also encouraged the Party’s governorship and other stakeholders to domesticate ongoing peace and reconciliation efforts undertaken by the National Working Committee (NWC).
The statement also stated that the Enugu state chairman, Ben Nwoye distanced the state chapter from the condemnable actions and utterances of a Senatorial aspirant in the state, Mr. Osita Okechukwu.
The meeting observed a minute silence in honour of the late Chairman of the Cross River State chapter of the Party, Dr. Mathew Achigbe who died recently in a ghastly auto crash.
The consultative meeting passed a vote of confidence on the National Working Committee (NWC) led by the National Chairman, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole and urged the NWC to continue its effort to protect the best interest of the Party and pursue efforts to achieve peace and reconciliation in the Party.
