An All Progressives Congress (APC) support group has backed the aspiration of Senator Umaru Tanko Almakura as the national chairman of the ruling party.
The group, known as ‘North West APC Progressive Youths Caucus’, spoke in astatement distributed to reporters in Bauchi over the weekend.
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Chairman of the group Comrade Abubakar Musa Mugaga, said they met in Kaduna and agreed that Almakura fits the position because of his wealth of experience in the world of politics.
He said “Almakura started his sojourn in politics since the second republic when he held the position of youth leader of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and member of the executive council of the party respectively.”
He added that in the third republic, Almakura was a former secretary of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) and remained in active politics for decades, and subsequently became an elected governor of Nasarawa state for eight years and now a serving senator.
“You have to believe that the man deserves to lead the party considering his track records and achievements politically as stated above. He is an embodiment of Nigerian democracy,” he said.
He appealed to the party stakeholders and delegates nationwide to throw their weight behind the candidature of Almakura in the upcoming national convention, saying that with him as the party leader, APC could retain power in 2023.
