The Young Legislators’ Forum of the All Progressives Congress in the House of Representatives has endorsed a former Governor of Nasarawa State, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, as the next chairman of the APC.
Chairman of the YLF, Bello Maigari; and the Deputy Chairman, Miriam Onuoha, said Abdullahi, a current member of the Senate, stood out with better credentials to lead the APC to victory in the 2023 general elections with his wealth of experience.
Maigari and Onuoha said this after a closed-door meeting with Adamu at his residence in Abuja on Monday.
Onuoha said, “We are here to endorse and support the candidacy of Senator Abdullahi Adamu for the position of National Chairman of the party.
“We have come to reach out to one of the aspirants for the office of the National Chairman of our great party, in person of Senator Abdullahi Adamu, who has also reached out to the forum during his campaign.
“Applying the doctrine of reciprocity, we are here to pay our solidarity visit to him and give him our commitment and resolve as a forum to identify with him and to support him in his ambition. We seek and pray that God will help his ambition to come through.
“We also use this opportunity to appeal to all APC faithful to remain resolute in their support for the APC. The APC remains the strongest and most formidable party in Africa. Every political party has its teething problems, but the party has remained sound in its approach to delivering the dividends of democracy to the Nigerian people; and we will stop at nothing to ensure that the party is united now more than ever to attack all the problems facing it.”
Maigari also noted that Adamu, being a former minister, a former governor and now senator, stands out as the most experienced among the contenders to take the APC to a greater height.
He said, “Senator Abdullahi Adamu is somebody with vast experience both administrative, executive and at party and legislative experience. So, he is somebody we believe has the right experience to take APC to a higher level.”
Speaking on Adamu’s opponents, Maigari said, “APC is a family and we don’t have issues supporting one candidate. Everybody is qualified to occupy the position, but we can only have one chairman at a time. We are calling on others to rally around him, bring forward all the ideas you want to implement so that he can look at it and implement them.”
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