The just elected Chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC, and former governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, has pledged to bring about reforms in the internal democracy of the party that will deploy high technology for membership registration.
Apparently mulling over the lackluster performance of their party, the APC, in the last geheral election, the Ganduje wandered how a party with over 40million members could barely manage to score a little over 8million votes in the last presidential election.
He made this while giving his acceptance speech, Thursday, in Abuja, after
Emerging as the new national chairman of the party.
He, among other things, also promised to promote party unity, ensure internal democracy, carry out reforms in alignment with the current political landscape, deploy higher technology for membership registration, and ensure a level playing field for all party members that want to contest elections under the party’s platform
He called on members of the party and the people of Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa states to close ranks and ensure that the APC wins in the forthcoming governorship elections.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has mocked the APC over its choice of Ganduje as national chairman.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Debo Ologunagba, in a statement in Abuja, knocked the APC for choosing a person he described as “ethically challenged.” as chairman.
Ologunagba said: “The choice of Dr. Ganduje by the APC as its national chairman, in spite of the stinking corruption and bribery allegations against him in the public domain, further confirms that the APC is a cesspit of corruption and a haven for thieves, bribe takers and treasury looters.
“It also underscores APC’s impunity and insensitivity to the demands of honesty, integrity and moral rectitude required of public office holders.”
