Ekiti APC Gets Interim Executive

The Interim National Vice-Chairman (Southwest) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, inaugurated yesterday the Ekiti State APC Interim Executive Committee.

The ceremony was held in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

The five-man committee is chaired by Chief Olajide Awe.

Other members are Mr. Abiodun Ogunleye (Secretary); Alhaji Azeez Awolokun (Treasurer); Mrs. Nike Olaosebikan (Public Relations Officer) and Chief Dele Falusi (Organising Secretary).

The committee will be in office pending the holding of congresses at the ward, local government and state levels, where substantive executives would be elected.

Governor Kayode Fayemi described the constitution of the committee as “another critical point in the making of a party formed to rescue Nigerians from a journey without maps and a directionless movement”.

Fayemi said the committee will guide the Registration Committee, which would be sent from the National Secretariat to oversee the registration of members in the next two weeks.

He said the registration of members was important to strengthen the party and prepare for the governorship poll.

Fayemi said: “This is critical because the governorship election will hold in June and the earlier this exercise is completed the better for us. We want it wrapped up before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) blows the whistle in March, which is about 90 days before the election.

“We are happy that Ekiti State is the first place where the interim executive has been put in place and this EXCO will take charge of the party, pending the holding of congresses at the ward, local government and state levels before the national congress.”

He expressed satisfaction that the party has successfully integrated members of the three legacy parties that merged into APC.

Fayemi urged members to work harder to improve the party, adding that

APC has created unit level in its constitution to give the party grassroots appeal.

Adebayo described the role of the committee as advisory, urging it to assist the registration panel that will be coming from the party’s national secretariat to succeed in its assignment.

Source: The Nation