The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been urged to consider zoning the National Chairmanship of the party to the North-Central geo-political zone of Nigeria.
This is in view of the strategic political significance of the zone in the determination of the electoral successes of the party in the 2023 Presidential and general elections.
The call was made in Abuja today by the APC Patriotic Ambassadors of Nigeria, at a media briefing to contribute to issues, values and norms of political interests’ aggregation to strengthen the political fortunes of the party ahead of the 2023 Presidential and general polls.
Speaking at the briefing, the spokesperson of the group, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim, who also doubles as the National Coordinator of the APC PATRIOTIC AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA, explained that the North-Central is the most strategic geo-political zone in Nigeria, with multi-cultural and multi-ethnic electoral investment opportunities, populated by almost all the major and minor ethnic nationalities in the country.
According to him, zoning the position of the National Chairman to the North-Central, will strengthen and help galvanize the huge electoral investment potentials that had from the early days of the first, second, third and fourth republic dispensations determined the flow and pattern electoral victories at both primary and secondary elections.
Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim, further explained that, “the capacity of all elected representatives to successfully manage the gains of their electoral successes, remain the most vital component of all variables or factors that
define, determine and shape the functionality of any good governance infrastructure or system as exemplified by the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Administration.”
Specifically, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim emphasized that, the call for the North-Central to produce the National Chairmanship had essentially been informed by certain emerging developments that have the capacity to define the sociology of the voting behavior by the voting electorate, whose emotional, cognitive, investigative, native and social intelligence, will individually and collectively help in advancing the functionality of the APC at the polls in 2023.
APC PATRIOTIC AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim said, “is by this move passionately appealing to all the APC chieftains, members of the National Working Committee, all elected representative at the tree-tiers of government such as State Executive Governors, Senators, Members of the Federal House of Representatives, State Lawmakers, Local Government Operatives and significant others, to give consideration to the call.
Answering questions by journalists, bordering on the philosophy behind the alternative view by the APC Patriotic Ambassadors of Nigeria, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim, said, “a tie-back to history in the 1999 return to the FOURTH REPUBLIC DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE, which produced one of the founding fathers of the defunct G-38, political platform that later metamorphosed into the Peoples’ Democratic Party, that had late elder stateman, Chief Solomon Daushep Lar – from the North-Central zone as the National Chairman and that political decision produced very positive electoral returns on investments at the Presidential and general elections, besides, offering political visibility to the political party in power then.”
Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim stated that “if the party zones the position of the National Chairman to the North-Central zone, the All Progressives Congress, as a national party, will exploit the full advantage maximizing electoral victories, in terms of electoral investments and return on electoral investments, respectively, thereby managing the gains of the electoral successes available to it by having a great grass roots mobilize, technocrat, team player, amiable political leadership figure, who will be acceptable to all zonally and nationally within the party.
Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim said, with just less than two months to the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress, zoning the National Chairmanship of the Party to the NORTH-CENTRAL geo-political zone, will greatly help the President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Administration, in ushering a NEW SOCIOLOGY OF VOTING BEHAVIOUR that will place the APC on good electoral advantage during the secondary elections, come 2023 Presidential and general elections. “Having a National Chairman from the North-Central geo-political zone of Nigeria, will provide a solid balance between the Southern and Northern planks of Nigeria.”
This, Dr. Aliyu Ibrahim also said “will in a going type of way form a buffer against the political infiltration of the zone by other rival political parties ahead of the 2023 elections. It is equally imperative to say that, having a very experienced political leadership figure with huge administrative wherewithal, competencies, robust knowledge-base and bureaucratic skills produced from the North-Central Zone, will no doubt, give APC its needed leap to super victory in the 2023 presidential and general elections.”
In his words, “at least, the entire NORTH-CENTRAL ZONE, which also houses, what is politically labeled as the Middle-Belt, will equally swell the electoral advantages in favor of the APC, as a political party that had been able to change the political narratives of political interests-aggregation, old system of power-play, power-game and entrenchment of novel ideals and ideas that modern polity, allows globally.”
“It is against this backdrop, that we the APC PATRIOTIC AMBASSADORS OF NIGERIA, will like to use the instance of this communication channel to urge all well-meaning stakeholders of the APC to have a thorough consideration of our demand.”
