March 06, (THEWILL) – A retired Deputy Inspector General of Police, Barrister Azubuko Udah has called on the Mai Mala Buni – led Caretaker /Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, CECPC of the All Progressive Congress, APC to ensure that the convention of the party coming up on March 26, 2022 is successful and free of rancour.
Udah who is also a Chieftain of the APC in a chat with newsmen said “My advice to the committee is that they must not disappoint us. Everybody is looking forward to the convention and it will be good, if they organise it very well, just like the way the other rival party did. Members of the party should be united. What we are trying to do now is to get ourselves together. Let us put everything well together and our members should act like people of the same family at the convention. We should shun crises and remain united.
”Our convention should be organised like a carnival. We should not be at war with ourselves. We need peace and I think the Planning Committee should do what they can to make the APC Convention a huge success. I know the convention Planning Committee is made up of people of good qualities. They must not disappoint us”.
He also commended Chief Edwin Clark over his recent comment that the South East should be allowed to produce the next president of the country.
Udah said “that is a fantastic suggestion. The APC which is my party should ensure justice by zone the presidential ticket to the South East. We are expecting the PDP also to do the same. It happened in 1999, when the two major presidential candidates, Chief Olu Falae and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, two of them from the South West, were the presidential candidates. So we want a situation where both APC and the PDP will do the same and ensure genuine reconciliation and bring about the happiness of everybody in the country. They should know that what the elder statesman has said is full of wisdom .
He said for the benefit of equity and fairness, the South East deserves to produce the next president.
He said the next Nigerian president should be somebody who understands Nigeria’s diversity.
Udah also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to brace up and continue the good work it is currently doing.
“INEC should continue the good work. If somebody is doing well, he should continue to do well. I called on the federal government, the state governments and the local governments as well as all Nigerians to support INEC as it is preparing to give us a credible election in 2023”.
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