Newly-elected National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Abudullahi Adamu, has declared there is no room for failure in the party under his chairmanship.
Adamu made the declaration Friday in Abuja after receiving his Certificate of Return from Jigawa’s Gov. Muhammad Abubakar, Chairman, Election and Planning Sub-Committee of the party’s March, 26 national convention.
“We have zero tolerance for failure in this new dispensation of our great party because we have an enormous responsibility ahead.
“On the 2023 general elections, we cannot move the way we are to election.
“We have a marching order by the leader of this party, President Muhammadu Buhari, we will have to deliver.
“There will be no excuses whatsoever, and we need every hand on deck for this to happen,’’ Adamu who emerged as APC national chairman through consensus said.
He commended Governor Abubakar’s committee for conducting the election in an efficient, honest and equitable manner.
“We would be explicit and we will be talking to you particularly to talk to the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) and through you to the forum’s chairman,’’ he said.
Membership of the PGF is exclusively that of APC governors.
“We will need your services from time to time and it is my hope that when we get to that point, whoever amongst you we call, will please come and join us to get us over certain situations.
“We will find you as ready partners,’’ Adamu said, adding that he was a team player and was ready to work with the newly-elected National Working Committee (NWC) members.
“I am a team player; as much as is possible I want to carry everybody along with me.
“But to work with me, not because I’m the best and everything, you have to be loyal, not just to me, but to the party. You have to recognise the authority of the party.
“In all that we do, the interest of the party is paramount,’’ the national chairman stressed.
Adamu until his emergence was the Senator representing Nasarawa West at the Senate.
Presenting Certificates of Return to the NWC members earlier, Governor Abubakar commended those who contested the party’s executive offices.
He congratulated Adamu for his emergence as the party’s new national chairman and thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his guidance and kind words.
Abubakar particularly thanked Buhari for his appeal to party members to embrace consensus which according to him, helped the election committee to do its job smoothly and easily.
He recalled that out of the 78 positions contested for in the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC), consensus was achieved in 66 positions, leaving 12 positions to be contested for by candidates.
“This demonstrates that the APC is indeed one family with members that will always listen to President Buhari and his call for peace and unity of the party,’’ he stressed.
Abubakar also thanked the contestants for comporting themselves in the most decent manner in the interest and progress of the party, adding that they were its heroes.
“Despite their personal interests, they chose to withdraw to allow for consensus so that our party will come out stronger and indeed this was what happened.
“I thank them and I believe they deserve all our commendations and the party will never forget them,’’ Abubakar said.
Meanwhile, Adamu has hinted that the APC new National Working Committee (NWC) may soon commence probe of the National Secretariat.
Adamu who said after receiving certificate of return, noted that clean members of staff have nothing to fear about the impending probe, insisted the party cannot continue the way things were, emphasizing his administration’s zero-tolerance for failure.
“It is in God’s pleasure that we are here at the helm of affairs of this party. We have come with a very open mind but you have to reciprocate in the same spirit.
“We will definitely by the will of God Almighty, need to look at you but I am not saying anything today until the Transition Committee submits its report.
“I hope that by the time the report is submitted, you have what they call a clean bill of the ledger, that’s my prayer. Right?
“We have zero tolerance for failure in this new dispensation of our great party,” he said.
The chairman also told party leaders and members to buckle up as the 2023 general elections get closer.
According to him: “We cannot move the way we are to the election. We have a marching order by the leader of this party, President Muhammadu Buhari we will have to deliver, there will be no excuses whatsoever and will need everybody’s hands on deck for this to happen.”
Governor Badaru urged the new National Working Committee (NWC) under Adamu to carry along all those who stepped down for them at the national convention.
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