The All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande on August 21, 2013, Wednesday, said the party was ready to mobilise supporters for its membership registration.
Akande told Journalists on Wednesday after the meeting of APC leaders in Abuja that the Interim Executive Committee (IEC) has been saddled with the membership drive.
He said that the committee would also be responsible for the conduct of congresses that would lead to the emergence of good leadership in the 2015 general elections.
“Today’s occasion therefore is to commence that process of sensitising our members and millions of supporters all over the country on who we are and what we stand for,” he said.
According to him, the party represents and champions the aspirations of most citizens.
He observed that the nation and its citizenry continued to exist in a state of near permanent trauma due to critical national challenges.
“It is common knowledge that our country has for many years now been confronted by fundamental, daunting and multi-dimensional challenges.
This is clearly indicated by the recurring crises that affect its social fabric, political processes, structure of governance, and indeed, its economic and developmental processes.
“Confronting these issues in a single minded manner is the reason for the formation of the All Progressives Congress (APC),” he said.
According to him, the philosophy underpinning the coming into being of the APC therefore is the determination to bring the country back from the brink of collapse, despair, and possible disintegration.
He stated that APC had planned to reposition Nigeria on the route to emerging into a modern stable democratic nation with a productive economy that was based on equity and justice for all citizens.
He added that the repositioning of the nation would be attained through the harnessing of the abundant energies, enterprise and intellect of all Nigerians.
Akande said that Nigeria ought not only be strengthened but reconstituted to become the veritable tool of resolving and managing the fundamental challenges confronting the nation.
He said that a large part of the APC’s agenda in particular would centre on the Nigerian Youth.
“According to many reliable reports, nearly two thirds of the over 160 million citizens of Nigeria are youth, meaning; people below the age of 35 years.
“Unfortunately, the process of governance in Nigeria, for all practical purposes, remains unyielding to the aspirations of this category of Nigerians.
“Consequently, no priority is assigned to education, job creation, entrepreneurship skills, and vocational training that would have turned our youth into truly productive citizens,” he said
Akade said that for the APC, the specific aspirations of women constituted a major ideological platform, adding that the party would allow true gender balance.
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