Newly affirmed National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu has mocked the opposition Peoples Democratic Party PDP who he said tried to destabilize weekend’s national convention of the APC.
Adamu in his acceptance speech Sunday afternoon at the Eagle Square, venue of the Convention, said the PDP mismanaged the country for 16 years.
It will be recalled that, Adamu was a founding member of the PDP as far back as 1998 and served as governor of Nasarawa State on the platform of the opposition party and also clinched his senatorial position as a member of the PDP in 2011.
At the end of his two-term governorship, Adamu became secretary, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP and only defected from the PDP in 2013 having joined the then “New PDP” who left with some chieftains of the then ruling party to join the newly formed APC.
At the event in Sunday, Adamu also congratulated “the great party men and women who also aspired to occupy these national offices of our great party”.
“They did not succeed this time but in God’s time, many of them will yet realize their ambitions to serve our party and country in many other positions of responsibility. As politicians we are not strangers to gains, losses and disappointments with the outcome of every political contest.
“Let us show maturity and good sportsmanship and accept the outcome of this Convention with grace. Our party needs all hands on the steering wheel so that together we can steer the ship of state through the inclement weather of our divisive national politics to the promised land. I thank all of them very much for their spirit of sportsmanship and we will continue to count on their cooperation as loyal party members and patriots”, he stated.
“As we conclude this very successful convention of our great party, I know that our opponents in PDP and other opposition parties are now sulking, wearing long faces of sadness, bewilderment and dismay.
“They had been hoping and praying to make a fortune out of our misfortunes. They were also hoping and praying to capitalize on assumed failures of our party to reap political benefits”, Adamu said.
He noted that for almost seven years now, APC Administrations at the Federal, state and local levels have been battling night and day in order to enhance the livelihood of Nigerians through various policies, programmes and projects.
“We need to renew our faith in our party and its leadership at all levels in order to herald a new dawn. We need to commit to the resolution of our crisis within the confines of our party constitution. We must resist the temptation to blow every minor personal disagreement into a major party crisis. It is time for us to do things differently. When we quarrel, we open our flanks to our rival political parties that are only too eager to exploit them for their own benefit”, he stated.
