APC sets up harmonisation committees in states August 26, 2013 by Ihuoma Chiedozie and Ade Adesomoju 24 Comments National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande The National Interim Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress has approved the establishment of State Harmonisation Committees in a bid to regulate the activities of the party in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The SHCs are expected to prevent a vacuum between the party’s activities at the national and state levels. A statement on Sunday by the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, explained that the party’s interim national leadership decided to set up the committees after adopting the report of the Masari Committee during its meeting in Abuja last week. The committees are mostly made up of current and former top government officials, members of the National Assembly and others who were chieftains of the political defunct parties which merged into the APC. The merged parties are the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party. The APC now referred to the three as ‘legacy parties.’ The Mohammed’s statement said, “The SHC shall comprise president/vice president, past and serving, who are members of the legacy parties; governors/deputy governors, past and serving, who are members of the legacy parties; serving and former Senators who are members of the legacy parties; serving members of the House of Representatives who are members of the party and speakers or minority leaders of the states Houses of Assembly who are members of the party.” Other members of the SHCs, according to the statement, are “former ministers who are members of the legacy parties; all immediate past national exco members of the legacy parties; immediate past gubernatorial candidates of legacy parties and their deputies where APC does not have a sitting governor who are still members of the legacy parties.” The SHCs also include “nine persons comprising of three elders, three youths and three women, with one of each being from each of the Senatorial Districts of the state; state Chairmen and the secretaries of the legacy parties; members of the National Interim exco and federal commissioners who are members of the legacy parties.” The statement also outlined the functions of the SHCs. Mohammed said the SHCs are expected to “harmonise and fuse the structures of legacy parties into one united, strong and vibrant APC party in an atmosphere of peace and harmony; organise and hold meetings of the party at all levels in the state (that is polling units, wards, LGA, Area Council and State); and to embark on massive mobilisation, coordination and consolidation of members into the party in accordance with stipulated guidelines issued by National Interim exco.” The state committees are also expected to take inventory of existing assets of the legacy parties across the state; and harmonise same for the effective establishment of the party structure in all polling units, wards, local government and state in accordance with the directive and guidelines from the National Interim exco. They will also ensure effective implementation of the registration process, “such that all persons desiring registration into the party are afforded the right to be so registered in accordance with the directives from the National Interim exco.”
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:12:32 +0000
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