By CYRIL MBAH, Abuja.
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched aggressive peace and reconciliation campaign throughout the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory [FCT] to unite members and ensure that the party works in harmony in the territory for the 2023 general elections.
A stakeholder’s meeting of APC members in the FCT held at the Gwagwalada Area Council secretariat and attended by ward leaders, state executive members, House of Representatives and Senatorial candidates of the party resolved to reach out to aggrieved members in goodwill and friendship for amicable settlement of grievances.
Briefing newsmen, soon after the meeting, Executive Chairman, Gwagwalada Area Council, Alhaji Abubakar Jibrin Giri, who hosted the gathering, stated that it became necessary to convene because members of the party have not gathered together since after the FCT February 2022 council election.
Giri explained that except party stakeholders rub minds and restrategize on the way forward, it would certainly be difficult to work as a team for the 2023 general elections especially as some members of the party were still nursing grudges and wounds arising from the FCT council polls.
“This stakeholders meeting was convened because we have not met since after the 2022 election, but we realised it is necessary that we rub minds among ourselves because the 2023 election campaigns will soon start and we cannot begin it without putting our house in order.
“We have resolved to reach out to aggrieved party members wherever they may be and make peace with them as well as bring them back to the party, if possible, so that we can together rebuild our house.
“We have empowered the ward and unit leaders to make peace a major issue as we start sensitization of our people in rural areas on new developments in the Electoral Act to guide them during the elections,” he explained.
