Some supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo on the platform of Buhari/Osinbajo Dynamic Support Group, Wednesday, took a solidarity walk to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) asking for tenure extension for the governor Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee.
The Buni’s committee was inaugurated in June, 2020, and saddled with the responsibility of administering the party’s affairs and to organise a national convention within six months following the dissolution of the Adams Oshiomhole led National Working Committee (NWC).
Members of the MBO group led by their national coordinator, Hon. Usman Ibrahim were seen carrying placards and banners with different inscriptions such as, ‘Mai Mala led Committee best choice to reposition the party’, support the current reforms in the APC’, ‘we support APC transformation for a better tomorrow’ among others.
Speaking with newsmen during the solidarity rally, the group’s National Coordinator Hon. Usman Ibrahim cautioned party members against threatening the committee over planned tenure extension.
“We are all aware of the several crises within the party which cut across the states which if not handled carefully, are capable of tearing the party apart. But since the resumption of the caretaker committee, it has swiftly embarked on peace building, fence mending and reconciliation of the aggrieved party members.
“We urge the caretaker committee to remain focussed, undeterred and unrelenting in its determination to reposition the party better than it was, and to our fellow party faithful to give maximum support to the committee innovations.
“As committed and dedicated members of the the APC, we have observed with great admiration the magnificent reforms being championed by the Buni led caretaker committee which is giving the party a rejuvenating impact since coming on board,” he said.
The APC Director of Administration, Suleiman Abubakar, who received the group on behalf of the party, promised that the Caretaker Committee would not disappoint the party but prepare it for victory ahead of the 2023 general elections.
