APC to hold Extraordinary National Convention on October 29
The All Progressives Congress APC, has officially announced plans to hold an “extraordinary” national convention on October 29 in Abuja.
The party disclosed this in a statement released by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in Lagos on Sunday, saying that the convention is to make amendments to the party’s constitution and adopt its six-point manifesto for the 2015 general elections.
The amendments are supposed to re-construct the party’s constitution and help it function more efficiently while the six-point manifesto has been extracted from the one it earlier submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the purpose of the 2015 general elections.
”The manifesto to be adopted at the extraordinary convention of our party is specifically for the 2015 general elections. Because of shifting priorities, we do not believe that a party manifesto should be one for all time but a document that will adjust to the changing needs of the people”, the statement said.
”In this regard, we have conducted a survey to find out what Nigerians urgently need at the moment to raise their standard of living and ensure their security and welfare, which is the raison d’etre of any government. Based on the outcome of the survey, we have come up with a six-point manifesto, which we extracted from the one we submitted to INEC earlier.
”The six broad priority areas for the APC ahead of the 2015 general elections are national security, good governance, human capital development, economic development, land and natural resources as well as foreign policy. The issue of job creation, fight against corruption, infrastructural development, health, qualitative education, regular power supply, etc are subsumed under these broad priority areas.”
