Abia state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has passed a vote of confidence in President Bola Tinubu for his people-oriented leadership, adopting him as the sole candidate for President in the forthcoming 2027 election.
The party took the decision during its Pre-Congress and National Convention Stakeholders Meeting in Bende, Bende Local Government Area of Abia state over the weekend.
The party also affirmed Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu as its leader for Abia state in recognition of all his efforts to boost its profile and turn around its fortunes in the state.
Press Secretary to the deputy speaker, Levinus Nwabughiogu in a statement said, Kalu in his remarks
at the event attended by the who is who in APC, said the ultimate goal of the meeting which he chaired is to deliver President Tinubu in 2027 election.
He said; “everything we have come to do today boils down to one thing: delivering His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Let me say it again. All we came to do is to make sure that the structures that we set up within the party, be it at the Ward level, local government level or State, at the end of the day, we will deliver President bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“I want to move a motion and that motion is that Abia State APC wholly adopts the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as our sole candidate for the coming election. Those in support that we are passing a great vote of confidence on our President, and as a party in Abia state, we are adopting him as the sole candidate for the office of the President, come 2027 say, aye. Those against, they are not here. You can now see that Mr. President has been adopted as our sole candidate. This motion was seconded by the Welfare Secretary of the National Working Committee”.
Reflecting on the just concluded electronic membership registration of the party, the Deputy Speaker said that contrary to the speculations and pessimism in some quarters, the Abia APC recorded significant progress with over 160,000 memberships, expressing gratitude to the members for their commitment and support.
“I thank you all most profoundly for coming out en masse and supporting the membership registration. When we were doing this membership registration, the national chairman was calling me, waking me up every morning and was the last person to speak to me every night.
“He(national chairman) was worried about our state simply because we don’t have a sitting governor like other states, but I assured the national chairman that I was canceling my trip overseas, returning to base for us to work together as stakeholders.
“Some people who are not members of our party claimed that we don’t have the numbers. The National Working Committee panicked whether the President will have sufficient soldiers of the party with the capacity to deliver the 25% or more during election, but I assured Mr. Chairman that we will use this to prove a point that though we don’t have a governor, we have a deputy speaker,” he said.
On the forthcoming Ward Congresses, Kalu said he had secure the nomination forms for the party and would be distributed soon.
“Let me preach unity. Let me preach peace. Everybody is important in this party. Let me say it again, everybody is important in APC. Please, I beg of you. We are marching forward, but that match will only be accomplishing the result we have set to achieve if we match together. We must come together.
“Everybody is important. Let us treat everyone with that sense of importance. We don’t have factions in this party. So, don’t come and tell me about factions. Anybody maintaining faction is not a member of our party. It’s part of our resolution today. Anybody who wants to maintain factions is not a member of APC,” he added.
