The North Central forum of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has solicited the support of its counterpart in the North-West region in it’s bid to reclaim the national chairmanship seat of the party.
The forum also warned the North-West stakeholders against passing a vote-of-confidence on the embattled national chairman.
The forum chairman, Saleh Mandung- Zazzaga, stated this on Tuesday while reacting to the Northwest APC stakeholders meeting, which was held in Kaduna on Sunday.
Mr Zazzaga said several votes of no confidence had already been passed on Mr Ganduje from several quarters, adding that anything contrary to that from the North-West APC would be counterproductive.
He explained further that apart from Ganduje’s purported suspension from his factional ward excos, there are a plethora of other issues hanging on his neck, that are capable of destroying the party.
The APC chieftain also insisted that, “the national chairmanship position of the party he occupies is for the North Central region, considering the party arrangements.”
He added that in the interest of fairness and justice the seat of national chairman should be occupied by someone from Nasarawa State or the North Central region, where the former chairman Abdullahi Adamu hails from.
“We are cautioning the North West APC against any move to back Ganduje because he is from the North West. Apart from the crisis rocking Ganduje and its ability to tear the party apart, the seat he is occupying is supposed to be for the North Central, and we are calling on our North West counterparts to support us as we push to reclaim it.
“The North West already has good positions like the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Deputy Senate President, among others, and the APC National Chairmanship position that by virtue of party arrangement, should be for the North Central is being occupied by Ganduje from the North West.
“In the spirit of fairness and equity, the national chairmanship position should be occupied by someone from the North Central region, because we too are part of the ruling party and we played a key role in the emergence of President Bola Tinubu in the last year’s election. We also performed well for the party in different elective positions.
“Notable among the remarkable performances of the North Central region is the winning of five states for the APC out of the six states in the North Central region, which is Benue, Kogi, Niger, Nasarawa, and Kwara. So we deserve the leadership position of the party, and we will stand up to any region who wants to deny us of the position.
“We cannot afford to fold our hand and let the position or other benefit that is for the North Central region to be transferred to another region, hijacked or denied us since our region is also a critical stakeholder in the APC.
“So, we call on President Tinubu to intervene and revert the privileges of the North Central back to the region so that the region will not feel cheated in the scheme of things in the party and get discouraged as a result,” he said.
Mr Zazzaga, therefore, called on the people of North Central, irrespective of political, professional, ethno-religious, and other affiliations, to join hands with the forum to push for the ouster of Ganduje so that a rightful person from the region can occupy the seat.
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