Ima Niboro, a former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria, says that the All Progressives Congress is a viable platform that will ensure the desired change in the country.
Niboro spoke at the APC National Secretariat in Abuja while meeting with the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Thursday.
Niboro recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the APC.
He was formally received by APC stalwarts in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, where he hails from, on December 5.
The former managing director urged politicians to remain focused and not to distract the President Muhammad Buhari-led administration.
Niboro said: “This is the time to work and not time for making noise.
“It is time for anybody who is a politician to go to the grassroots and work.
“We should not wait till election time.
“This is the time we should start the processes to convince people that this is a viable platform and once we do that, I am sure we will be able to do very well.”
Niboro described as a “wonderful one”, his meeting with the APC national chairman, whom he said he met last in 1992 when he was the Governor of Edo State.
Niboro said that the APC national chairman “is a father-figure in the South-South”, adding that he had been following Odigie-Oyegun’s political trajectory for a long time.
He said that the APC national chairman received him warmly to the party, adding that he discussed major issues with him, especially issues concerning Delta State.
Earlier, the APC national chairman, while receiving Niboro, expressed satisfaction with his decision to join the party.
Odigie-Oyegun expressed optimism that Niboro would bring his political expertise to bear in advancing the party and the country generally.
Niboro had earlier said that his decision to join the party was to align Delta State with the government at the national level with a view to fast track development in the state.
Niboro said: “It is not a sudden switch.
“I have had 18 months to study the situation as it concerned my ward, local government, community and even my state.
“I have to conclude that there is time for everything.
“This is the time for us in Delta to link up with the Federal Government in order to bring development to our land.”