Start Packing Your Loads To Leave In 2015..APC Tells PDP

The All Progressives Congress (APC) have, on Saturday in Kaduna, reiterated their resolve to form government at state and national levels come 2015.

The chieftains who met at a function organised by the Movement for a Better Future, included Malam Nasir El-Rufai, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali, Hajiya Hafsat Baba, General Jafaru Isa(rtd) among others.

Former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau said his assessment of the state of the nation at the moment was that it was “very unfortunate.”

According to him, “the constitution of the country lists the issue of security of lives and property as the number one priority of government. Therefore, any government that has failed to provide security of lives and property is below average and in fact, is a failure. So, my assessment is that the government is a total failure. It is not about projects as I have said, but about the wellbeing and safety of the people.”

Commenting on the threat of Vice President Namadi Sambo who hails from the Northwest zone, he said “we have come a very long way. It is not about where you come from or what office you occupy. Of course, it is common knowledge that the Vice President belongs to the wrong group. That he is from the Northwest does not give us any threat. In fact as far as the Northwest is concerned, it is a walk over for the APC. Go and check the records.

El-Rufai who spoke on behalf of Chief Bisi Akande, interim national chairman of the APC, said the national executive of the party had issued guidelines for the setting up of harmonisation committees in the various states.

“The harmonisation committees are not caretaker or interim committees, but just harmonisation committees. The objective is to ensure the fusion of the three legacy parties into one political party. They are to ensure that meetings take place at all levels. By next week, we hope to finish work on the harmonisation committees for them to start work right away.

“I also want to appeal to all party members to desist from making any comment or giving any impression that leaders have been selected for the APC in any state because no leader has emerged yet. The leaders of the party will emerge from the harmonisation committees who will hold forth for about two months while we register members before holding congresses where elected leaders will emerge. Our intention is to have the national convention latest by January 2014,” he said.