By Dayo Omoogun
Following the inauguration on Tuesday of the Women and Youth sensitisation and mobilisation committee of the All Progressives Congress
preparatory to the commencement of the party’s membership registration, update and revalidation, the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, who was named chairman of the committee, yesterday promised in his acceptance remarks that his committee will work towards quadrupling the party’s membership.
Bello, who was full of praise for President Buhari also expressed appreciation to the Chairman of the Caretaker/ Emergency Convention Planning Committee ( CECPC), pouring accolades on him for how he and his committee has turned around the party which was enmeshed in crises before his appointment.
“We want to sincerely appreciate you, Mr. President, for caring for the nation, for caring for women, for caring youths and for caring for the future of each and every one of us. You are indeed a father that every one of us will always be proud to have.
“Let me appreciate my wonderful brother, a colleague and friend, the Executive Governor of Yobe State and Chairman of the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), H.E. Mai Mala Buni. You have been an astute politician an amiable person, an accommodating person and an achiever. We sincerely appreciate you for taking up this onerous task of rebuilding the party from bottom-up, for restoring peace, and sanity, unity and togetherness to our wonderful party, the All Progressives Congress. Ever since you came onboard every aggrieved member of the party across the country have found succour.
“We have always been saddled with the responsibility of carrying one assignment or the other for the party and we have always delivered on our mandate. This is yet another one and by the grace of God, with the cooperation, understanding and the support of members of the party and Nigerians, we are very confident that we are going deliver resoundingly once again.
“You will recall just of recent and as always in the past, there has always been agitations for youths and women inclusion in governance and leadership of this country. Of recent, we are aware of the #EndSARS protests for five demands. Those demands were met and there was an extension. It’s just an expression of desire for good governance and inclusion in the country. Wonderfully, Mr. President opened the door through the Chairman of the party and the managers of the party where an opportunity has been created that all those who left the party before, those who are desirous of joining the party and those who are desirous of decamping from other political parties to APC, that window has been opened.
“I want to assure that we shall move to the field immediately. We are going to swing into action. We are going to liaise with every stakeholder within the party and across party lines. We are going to generate serious awareness. We are going to educate Nigerian people about our great party. We are going to sensitize the Nigerian people.
“We are going to mobilize and we are going to have a membership of this party tripled if not quadrupled by the grace of God.
“We have taken up this responsibility. It’s a sacrifice, it’s out of patriotism, it’s a national assignment. We are going to deliver a resoundingly. The APC will continue to win every election in this country. By the time we are done and all the registration of new members and revalidation of existing members are done in the country, APC will not just be the largest in Africa but we’re going to call on even the developed nations to come and learn from APC in Nigeria. We shall even teach some of our brothers who have just concluded elections that were rancorous. I will not mention names but we are going to be an institution of political and politics in Nigeria.”