Tajudeen Abbas has urged the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to reconcile aggrieved members of the party to enable the current administration perform optimally.
Abbas also advised them to eliminate the huge turnover rate of members of the National Assembly so that only members who have performed well would return to parliament.
A statement yesterday in Abuja by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Musa Abdullahi Krishi, said the Speaker said this during APC’s Northwest stakeholders’ meeting in Kaduna.
Abbas urged the Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) to constitute reconciliation committees that would unite party members nationwide.
He said: “I want to call on the National Chairman and our party Executive to ensure peaceful coexistence among all party members… We are bedeviled with many issues in different states in every local government. It is time to draw a line.
“Elections are over; this is the time for governance. We should forget what has happened; let’s forgive one another, let’s embrace one another.
“I want to suggest to the National Chairman and, by extension, the National Vice Chairman, to, as a matter of urgency, constitute reconciliation committees for the zones and for every state to constitute the same reconciliation committees so that we can make peace and bring those that we may have offended back to the party.”
The Speaker urged Ganduje to address the high turnover rate of members of the National Assembly, saying only APC members that perform well should be given the opportunity to return in 2027.
“On the issue of the high turnover of members of the National Assembly, this is a golden opportunity under your tenure to ensure that you do everything humanly possible for current (APC) members of the National Assembly and states’ Houses of Assembly to return in 2027.
“Some people may say there are others waiting. But I need to emphatically mention that the National Assembly is an institution where the older you are in the system, the better you become,” he said.
The Speaker hailed President Bola Tinubu for giving some key positions to the Northwest.
Abbas said: “We thank Mr. President for finding the Northwest worthy of many important positions. This is the first time that we have the Speaker, the Deputy President of the Senate and the National Chairman of our party emerging from the zone.
“To whom much is given, much is expected. It is our turn to appreciate Mr. President, to appreciate our party by ensuring that we do everything humanly possible to bring dividends of democracy to our people, to ensure that the insecurity that has bedeviled our zone is brought to its logical conclusion, to also ensure that in 2027, we redouble our efforts for the APC to do better in every ward, every local government, every state and the country as a whole.”
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