Ahead of next February national convention of the All Progressives Congress (APC), a chairman aspirant, Saliu Mustapha, has said that a sound management practice would drive the change to mitigate crises in the party.
Mustapa stated this, on Thursday, while speaking at the annual lecture organised by the APC Press Corps.
Represented by Edwin Osa Ogunbor, Mustapha submitted that a new leadership must be proactive enough to foresee the crisis and nib it in the bud.
He further maintained that a leadership prepared to accommodate the interests of all stakeholders would inspire a sense of belonging that would douse tension at all levels of leadership.
He said: “As APC Chairman, we intend to work for and pursue a larger leadership role for the youth, women and People living with Disabilities (PLWDs) in the party.
“We will run a strategic party governance system. We will be clearheaded in our processes with eyes firmly on the future. We will discourage a fire-brigade approach to party governance. All plans and programmes of the party would be well thought out, properly marshalled, strategically planned and thoroughly debated before they are implemented.
“We will adopt preventive diplomacy in crisis management. We will manage the political crisis by preventing them. We will prevent crisis by constantly looking out for conventional and non-conventional triggers otherwise known as early warning signals across all strata of the party, and nip them in the bud promptly and firmly before they degenerate.
“But in the event that conflicts still rear their heads in spite of all, we will be prepared with a bottoms-up dispute resolution mechanism that is independent, dependable, fair and inclusive.
“APC has been in existence for almost nine years during which we have witnessed several positive developments including winning two consecutive Presidential elections as well as the lows especially the one that birthed the current Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) headed by Governor Mai Mala Buni which has done a great job in stabilizing the party.
“But we promise to build on what the CECPC is doing by managing all stakeholder interest as best as we could.
“We know that it is interest that drives politics and politicking. We recognise the essentiality of both individual and group interest in politics. We equally recognise that proper management of political interest of leaders, stakeholders and members of the party is fundamental to a successful party administration so we shall ensure a delicate balance in managing the varying competing but legitimate interest in the party through dialogue, consensus building, engagement and communication.”
Earlier in his keynote address, APC Beyond 2023: The tasks ahead – The Role of Stakeholders,” Osita Okechukwu, who incidentally is the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria expressed confidence that the governing party would still retain its control of the central government in the next general elections given its performance in the provision of social infrastructures across the country.
He however called on stakeholders to ensure that internal democracy was restored before the general election.
“One will appeal that we candidly for the collective interest of our party to observe Article 20 of the Constitution of our great party, which states interalia,
“All party posts prescribed or implied by this constitution shall be filled by democratically conducted elections at a respective national convention or congress subject, where possible, to consensus. Where a candidate has emerged by consensus for an elective position, a vote of “yes” or “no” by ballot or voice shall be called to ensure that it was not an imposition which could breed discontent and crisis.”
“In sum, our great party, the APC without prejudice to challenges like palpable insecurity in the land is a comeback party and will surely prevail by winning 2023 presidential election given the solid infrastructural foundation consciously being laid for economic growth and prosperity.”
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