Stakeholders of All Progressives Congress (APC) in
Adamawa State have taken stock of how the party
lost the state in the 2019 election due to disunity
and resolved to put the past behind them and take
back the state in 2023.
The stakeholders came out of a reconciliatory
meeting in Yola on Friday night saying they had
learnt their lessons and would henceforth work
together for the success of the party at all levels.
A former member of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, and
Hajia Aisha Buhari’s brother, Ahmed Halilu (Mudi)
had been bitterly against Sen Mohammed Jibrilla
(Bindow) after Bindow as the state governor at the
time, won the APC governorship primary which
Ribadu and Mudi discredited.
The two rejected Bindow’s candidacy up to the
general election and were believed to have worked
against Bindow at the election, a development
believed to have contributed greatly to the failure of
Bindow and of course the APC at the election.
Ribadu who attended the Adamawa State APC
Steering Committee/State Exco/Stakeholders.
Reconciliatory Meeting of Friday night, stressed that
the intra-party conflict which cost the party the
chance of retaining the state at the 2019
governorship election would never occur again.
“Never again will we let that happen,”
he said
during a review remark at the end of the meeting.
The meeting was the first in what may be a series
of similar meetings following the constitution of a
39-member Central Steering Committee of the APC
to reconcile misgivings and reposition the party for
future success.
Ribadu said,
“We are here saying enough is enough. We will work together, we will never allow anything
to come between us that will affect our fortunes and
the fortunes of our party.
“APC is a progressive party, our opponents are
conservatives. It was so unfortunate that we were
not guided in the past as a result of which our
political enemies benefitted.”
Urging a demonstration of the new resolve in the
council-level elections scheduled for the state in
November, Ribadu said,
“It will never happen again
in Adamawa. We have an election coming, the local
government election. We intend to do it properly
and fairly and we will not allow anybody to cheat us
again.
“We have all assembled here, all the leaders of the
party from the local government to state levels. We
have all resolved to work together for the victory of
our party.”
Earlier in his remark, chairman of the APC Steering
Committee and one time Minister of Defence and
Internal Affairs respectively, Abdurrahman Adamu,
said thathe was disturbed by the lingering precarious
relationship among members of the party, elders
took the gauntlet to restore sanity and orderliness
after the party waded through misunderstanding for
a long time.
Also speaking, Adamawa State APC chairman,
Ibrahim Bilal said with the resolve of the elders of
the party to address grievances within the party,
APC in Adamawa has become well organised,
strengthened and ready to take the state by storm.
The Chairman Sub-Committee on Reconciliation,
Dahiru Bobbo, said his committee was delegated to
reconcile aggrieved members and put the party on
the threshold of prosperity.
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