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Senator George Akume
The APC Progressives’ Ambassadors, say having Sen. George Akume either as elected or consensus National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will attract the Northern minorities voting electorates, ahead of 2023 presidential and general polls.
The National Coordinator of the Group, Dr Aliyu Ibrahim, stated this in a statement issued in Monday in Abuja.
The Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the APC has re-scheduled the party National Convention for March 26.
Ibrahim said that the emergence of Akume would no doubt bring about a new sociology of voting behaviour and would be of great benefit to the party in the 2023 general elections.
He said that such voting pattern would be based on the concept of person-perception and mechanical solidarity by group sub-populations, who had developed positive sympathy for him, on the basis of his sterling administrative as well as political leadership qualities.
Ibrahim advised the APC leaders, elders and stakeholders, including President Muhammadu Buhari, to critically study the political drum beats and go for a stable, disciplined, cultured and polished personality.
He said that the APC needs a candidate such as Akume, who has political, social and balanced human connections in terms of widespread acceptability, amiable personality, whose dispositions and capacity are not in doubt.
“That personality is none other than Akume; a University of Ibadan trained Sociologist, Labour and Industrial relations expert.
“Akume possesses the instinctual wherewithal, experience, emotional, cognitive, and social intelligence infrastructure to preside over the affairs of men and women in the APC across all cultural, social, ethnic and religious divides, even as he will enjoy the goodwill, kind cooperation and warmth of people of different character-traits.
“These considerations, which date back when he was a local government council chairman up to his days as governor, federal lawmaker and presently Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, show that distinguished Sen. Akume, is an urbane man of all seasons.
“He is a man, who can drive the needed goodwill that the APC requires to re-assure the larger Nigerian electorate that, making their electoral investments on them for the third time, since 2015 to date, will be one that promises to usher in fruitful and rewarding return on their electoral investments.
“These return on their electoral investments, judging from the line-up of aspirants for the APC National Chairmanship race, perhaps, it is only Akume, that appears to have the conditioned primary and secondary socialization-processes to strike a person-perceptional appeal and attraction to respond to the individual and collective stimuli from these multitude of northern minorities electorates.
“This is also alongside their Southern counterparts, irrespective of their population-sizes, population-patterns and population-distributions.
He added that having Akume as either the elected or consensus chairman of the APC unarguably pacifies all religious, ethnic, cultural, economic status or social background as stakeholders in a social contract.
Ibrahim said that from all established indications, the APC had zoned the national chairman position to the North-Central geo-political zone, the North as a political entity must be very careful and considerate in the political power-sharing equation.
Ibrahim said that this is important in order to avoid losing the electoral votes from the northern Christian minorities, to the People’s Democratic Party in the Feb. 25, 2023, presidential and general elections.
He said that could only be done by endorsing Sen. Akume, to show equity, fairness and justice both in the eyes of political balancing, distribution and allocation of human capital resources as reflected and represented in the current line-up of political service appointments within the APC government.
He added that President Buhari needed a party chairman who would be loyal in other to sustain the policies and programmes of his administration.
The quality, according to Ibrahim, is illustrated by Akume in his campaign slogan “Experience, Trust, Integrity and Creativity”.
He urged President Buhari to prevail on the APC governors and significant others, to ensure that Akume, a northern minority, is endorsed as the consensus National Chairman of the APC. (NAN)
