APC convention: Gov Sule pushes for Al-Makura as party chair
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has urged members and leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to support and vote for Senator Umaru Tanko AlMakura at the forthcoming convention as the party’s national chairman.
He made the appeal while receiving decampees from PDP, APGA and ZLP in Keffi at the weekend.
The call is coming amidst zoning controversy in the party ahead of the convention being planned for June 2021.
Al-Makura, a former governor of Nasarawa State, played a key role in the emergence of Sule in the 2019 governorship election.
He is also a member of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Caucus, one of the legacy parties that merged to give birth to the APC.
“Two of the legacy parties, ACN and ANPP each produced two national chairmen of the APC. The only legacy party that is yet to produce the national chairman is the CPC,” he said.
The governor stressed that Senator Al-Makura played a critical role in leading the then CPC into the merger that brought about the APC.
He appealed to APC top echelon to consider Nasarawa State for the chairmanship, arguing that it was the only state that provided the CPC with a platform leading to the merger in 2013 that gave birth to APC.
He said if the CPC Caucus is allowed to produce the next chairman of APC, there would be fairness and justice in the party.
The governor welcomed the decampees into the APC and pledged that everyone would be carried along in the scheme of things.