By Innocent Odoh The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Musa Bello has called on leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North Central zone of Nigeria to remain united and provide good governance to the populace.
A statement issued on Monday by the Deputy Director/Chief Press Secretary to the FCT Minister, Muhammad Hazat Sule noted that the minister made this call when the Deputy National Chairman,
North Central zone of the Party, Zakari Idde, led the state chairmen of the zone to pay him a courtesy visit in Abuja, adding that this was necessary if the party was to prolong its electoral fortunes in the
region.
Bello noted that Nigerians were unequivocally yearning for change in the manner their affairs were being managed and that the party should remain the arrowhead and the platform for people to realize that.
“The Party is in control of all the states in the North Central and the only way it could go back to solicit their support during elections is by providing quality leadership at levels of government,” the Minister emphasized.
According to him, “this is an opportunity for us to show good governance because it is something that our members have been yearning for a long time. We have to really govern properly to enable the
people spot the difference so that next time, when we go back to them, they will receive us with open arms.”
The Minister while recalling that the APC in the FCT was polarized along diverging interests when he assumed office as Minister last year, noted that the party’s leaders in the zone played very crucial
roles in reconciling and uniting the aggrieved members under one front, which he said helped a great deal in achieving the landslide victory that the party recorded during the last FCT Area Councils’ elections.
His words: “You played a reconciliatory and fatherly role. You were able to talk to the aggrieved parties to bring people together. I think that gave us the necessary unity that made it possible for us to
get the successes that we got during the last Area Councils’
election”.
Bello further stressed the need for the party to build upon this unity; adding that its electoral successes would always depend on it.
“At the end of the day, no matter our differences, I think our objective is to win elections and to provide good governance. For that
to happen, we have to be united, extremely patient and know that under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, we will continue to show what good governance is,” he stated.
The Minister assured that the FCT Administration would continue to provide the moral and logistics support to the party in order to strengthen its structure in the region as well as cushion some of the
challenges being faced by the party’s leaders across board, the statement said.
Speaking earlier, the National Deputy Chairman of the APC North Central zone, Zakari Idde, thanked the Minister for his efforts to win five out of the six Area Councils during the last Councils’ election.
The Deputy National Chairman while commending President Muhammadu Buhari for his anti-corruption crusade noted that the Zonal leadership condemned in strong terms the impeachment threat on him, the statement added.
