THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced plans to name its National Secretariat in Abuja after President Muhammadu Buhari.
The chairman of the party’s National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Governor of Yobe State, Malam Mai Mala Buni, made this known today.
Speaking at the APC CECPC meeting at the State House with President Buhari in attendance, Buni said the “party members have agreed to name the secretariat, Muhammadu Buhari House”.
Responding to President Buhari’s commendation, he said the committee approached the duty with commitment and dedication to rescue the party from imminent collapse.
The Yobe State Governor noted that all issues and members were given a fair hearing, and an open-door policy was created to accommodate all those that were aggrieved, leading to the withdrawal of cases in court and peaceful settlements.
“We are currently witnessing high-powered decamping to our party, including governors from the PDP.
“The party is now more peaceful, orderly, and accommodating than what we met on the ground. Although there was initial fear, the mobilisation and sensitization were able to allay the fears of members,’’ Buni said.
The governor said the registration and revalidation of members across the country recorded more than 40 million members, and an appeal committee was also set up to hear all matters related to the process so that no member gets disenfranchised.
“We have observed that youth and women constitute the huge population of the voting group. We had a youth and women committee, and also people with disability,’’ he added.
He said a Contact and Strategy Team had been set up in every state to come up with an acceptable template that would ensure transparency, credibility, and acceptability of the internal electoral processes.
Buni also said the committee had instituted a process to review the party’s constitution and look into loopholes that usually fan conflict and litigations among members, with more than 500 memoranda already received.
The governor said huge legal fees were inherited, and the committee had worked with members to settle all the outstanding, after scaling them down, noting that payment for the APC National Secretariat had been completed.
