2023: ‘APC Stands United To Renew Our Mandate’

By Akombo Aondona, Abuja

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party’s Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and members of the APC nationwide remain united and unshaken in their determination to embark on issues-based campaign across the country and get Nigerians to back the APC with a view to renewing the party’s mandate in the 2023 General Elections.

  National Publicity Secretary, APC, Barr Felix Morka, stated this on Thursday, 29 September, 2022 in a statement issued to debunk a claim made in a draft letter in circulation purportedly written by the National Chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Adamu, expressing displeasure to the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, over the composition of the APC presidential campaign council.

Morka distanced the NWC and the party from the draft letter, saying the APC will not be distracted “by the wishes and actions of its detractors”.

Morka wrote: “Our attention has been drawn to a “DRAFT” letter in circulation purportedly written by His Excellency, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the National Chairman of our great Party, addressed to His Excellency, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of our great Party, expressing dissatisfaction over the recently released list of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC).

“To be clear, the “DRAFT” letter did not emanate from the Party. An UNSIGNED letter that marks itself as a ‘DRAFT’ cannot and should not be attributed to its purported author.

“The National Chairman of our Party and our Presidential Candidate maintain cordial and effective communication channels, and enjoy full liberty of open and frank conversations on matters of interest to the Party and our Presidential Campaign. As such, an unsigned “DRAFT” letter of the kind in circulation is patently unnecessary and of no qualitative value to engagement between the Party and the PCC. 

“We will not be distracted by the wishes and actions of detractors that wait gleefully but in vain for some kind of crisis to erupt between the Party and the PCC. 

“We stand united, as a Party, in our resolve and commitment to execute a focused and issue-driven campaign to persuade Nigerians to renew our mandate in next year’s general election.”