LOOKING BEYOND THE APC CONVENTION – Akin Makanjuola

The APC Volunteers Group welcome our highly esteemed delegates, contestants,non delegates and observers to the beautiful Capital city of Nigeria.

We also wish to remind the delegates, contestants and other party members that the convention will come and go,but Nigeria remains.In other words,we should all look beyond the convention,our volting ambition and envision the future of Nigeria, where no man is oppressed,where the culture of democracy is allowed to thrive and the system is allowed to work with the efficiency and precision of a Swiss watch.

The APC Volunteers group (a foremost organization within the APC founded in 2014) viewed with trepidation and anxiety developments within the party in the last three months leading to inconsistencies, unpredictability and policy somersaults as if the APC has no Constitution guiding it’s modus operandi.

Having gone through this period of uncertainty, it is however gladdening that the APC has emerged from the doldrums a more united and stronger party to deliver the dividends of democracy to our people.

It is self evident that the outcome of this March 26th Convention,will to a large extent determine the next level for our great party and the nation that is eagerly waiting for APC to get it’s act together and show the way to go.As the great Zik of Africa would say:”Show the light and the people shall find the way”.

So in similar manner, the APC Volunteers is calling on the APC the largest political party in Africa to show the light and example for all other parties in the country and beyond the shores of Nigeria on how to conduct a party convention without rancor or bitterness.

The March 26 Convention therefore, is a gathering of the best minds and the leading light in Nigeria,there should be no room for thugs, miscreants and other undesirable elements in society disrupting the smooth conduct of the convention, this again calls for the visible presence of securities whose intervention and crowd control mechanism will go a long way in ensuring a hitch free convention.

Meanwhile the APCV salute the hardworking convention planning committee for the great work they are doing to make the convention a huge success.

Our fervent prayer in APCV is that the government of the people,by the people and for the people will not perish in our time.

Akin Makanjuola is the media pointsman for APC National Coordinator,Victor Olufemi Walsh. He authored the Press.

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