APDA to hold NEC meeting tomorrow

The Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA) is to discuss its future prospects at a meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) tomorrow.

A statement issued by the interim deputy national chairman of the party, Dr. Ayodele Fijabi-Adebo and the interim national organising secretary, Saleh Barde, said the NEC would hold tomorrow.

The party said the Tuesday NEC would also discuss plans towards the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra State in which it will field a candidate.

Meanwhile, the APDA has said that it is making arrangement to sponsor a private bill to the National Assembly to ban the age-long practice of distribution of money and gift items to eligible voters by politicians before and during elections in the country.

The national chairman of the party, Malam Shittu Mohammed, said this when he led other members of the national secretariat of the party to Ado Ekiti at the weekend, for the formal unveiling of the APDA in Ekiti State, preparatory to the 2018 governorship poll.

Mohammed said such practice by politicians was a way of corrupting voters and buying their conscience. He also dismissed the insinuation that a former vice president of the country, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and Senate President Bukola Saraki were its financiers.

Muhammed, who boasted that APDA would form the next government in Nigeria and win next year’s Ekiti gubernatorial poll, described the party as the next biggest thing in Nigeria, stressing that it was out to sanitize the polity.