New Opposition Party Plans Radical Social, Economic and Political Reformation of the Country

GOVERNORS BRIEFING NEWSMEN AFTER ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) MEETING IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY
GOVERNORS BRIEFING NEWSMEN AFTER ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) MEETING IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY

With their merger plans in its concluding stages, ten governors under the platform of the newly-formed All Progressives’ Congress (APC) met in Abuja, and picked zonal contact mobilisation coordinators for the country. The announcement of the contact mobilisation committees was made after more than six hours of meeting by the ten governors at the Lagos House, Asokoro in Abuja.

The governors also made known their plans for the country. At the meeting, which was presided over by Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, were the governors of Ekiti, Kayode Fayemi; Ogun, Ibikunle Amosun; Oyo, Abiola Ajimobi; and that of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola. Others in attendance were Adams Oshiomhole of Edo; Rochas Okorocha of Imo; Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara; Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa; and Kashim Shettima of Borno State.

At the end of the meeting, the governors declared that they were pleased with the name APC adopted by the merger committee as it captures the spirit of cooperation and compromise that they all espouse and underscores the imperative of rescuing Nigeria from decay. The APC governors in a communiqué read by Governor Tanko Al-Makura, announced that the party would give priority attention to the promotion of radical social economic and political reformation of the country.

In particular, the party said its priority programmes would be agricultural development, job creation, free education, affordable healthcare, infrastructural development, adequate power supply, eradication of poverty and corruption and rapid technological advancement and industrialisation. They declared: “We shall pride ourselves as social democrats that are committed to organise our society based on the values of justice for all and individual freedom where everyone’s basic needs are fulfilled.”

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  1. I hope the APC begin their radical reforms from the NNPC and the CBN. That’s where the two biggest holes in our economy exist.

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