…SAYS APC HAS FULFILLED ITS COVENANT WITH NIGERIANS
The newly elected National Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, Alhaji Abdulahi Adamu, has mocked the opposition People’s Democratic Party over the successful national convention of the party that produced him.
Adamu said in his acceptance speech on Sunday in Abuja that the PDP and other opposition elements were expecting to make a political fortune from an anticipated crisis during the convention.
He said “As we conclude this very successful convention of our great party, I know that our opponents in PDP and other opposition parties are now sulking, wearing long faces of sadness, bewilderment and dismay.
“They had been hoping and praying to make a fortune out of our misfortunes. They were also hoping and praying to capitalize on assumed failures of our party to reap political benefits.”
Interestingly, Abdullah Adamu was a founding member of PDP, who was a two-term PDP Governor of Nasarawa State.
A seasoned politician who was Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the PDP and Senator of the Federal Republic under the PDP. At the twilight of the Jonathan Administration, he defected to the APC in 2014.
Also, the National Secretary of the Party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, was a PDP Senator representing Osun East from 2003 to 2011.
Wikipedia still retains PDP as his political party. He contested for Governorship of Osun State under the PDP and lost to Rauf Aregbesola on August 9, 2014.
The long list of politicians with PDP foundation in control at the APC include Barr Festus Fuanter (Plateau State), deputy national secretary; Muazu Bawa Rjau Niger State, national vice chairman (North-Central); Mustapha Salihu (Adamawa State), national vice chairman (North East); Barr Ahmed El-Marzuk (Katsina State), national legal adviser; Uguru Matthew Ofoka (Ebonyi State), national treasurer; Senator Abubakar Maikafi (Bauchi State), national auditor, Dr Betta Edu (Cross River), national women leader; Barr F.N. Nwosu (Abia State), national welfare secretary, and Nze Chidi Duru (Anambra State), deputy national organizing secretary.
Adamu who emerged through a consensus arrangement after all the other six contestants were prevailed upon to step down for him pleaded with all aspirants to “show maturity and good sportsmanship and accept the outcome of this Convention with grace.”
He stressed that even though they did not achieve their ambitions at the convention, a good number of them will still serve the party and the country in several other positions of responsibility.
The APC National Chairman said that the party has fulfilled its covenant with Nigerians. “We are however satisfied that APC has fulfilled its covenant with the Nigerian people.
“Of the three main pillars of its promises to the Nigerian people in 2015, that is, security, economy and anti-corruption, much progress has been recorded in all three areas and many more. “APC is set to do much, much more when Nigerians continue to bestow on us their love, support and confidence in next year’s general elections.”
He said that no administration has the record of the APC in the area of the provision of critical infrastructure which were erstwhile considered impossible in the country.
He listed such projects to include “the Second Niger Bridge, complete rehabilitation of the Lagos-Ibadan dual carriageway, the Lagos-Ibadan express rail, the Abuja-Kaduna express light rail, the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano pipeline…”