By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
NATIONAL Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Felix Morka, says the ruling party will not be stampeded to commence its campaigns ahead 2023 general elections.
He said the party would take its time before proceeding on a nation-wide campaigns for elective offices ahead next general elections.
Morka made the declaration on Monday while speaking on Arise TV monitored programme monitored by Stonix News in Abuja.
Stonix News reports that since the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, jetted out to UK, there appears a pause in the party’s activities.
It was, however, revealed that the APC Presidential Campaign Council will hold a meeting on Tuesday night at the campaign secretariat in Abuja.
Secretary of the Campaign Council and lawmaker representing Ikeja Federal Constituency, James Abiodun Faleke, will preside at the session.
Meanwhile, the party’s presidential candidate, Tinubu, is expected to return to the country on Wednesday.
The APC Presidential Campaign Council to be chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Women Wing led by First Lady, Aisha Buhari, will be inaugurated on October 10, at the Dome Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Speaking further on delay in the party’s campaigns, Morka insisted that campaigns have since started at wards, local government areas in states across the country.
He maintained that the ruling party would not rush into elaborate campaigns.
“Our campaigns are ongoing already even though it is yet to be formally and globally inaugurated.
“But you know, make no mistake, the units and at ward levels in the local governments and states efforts are underway. People are really bursting with energy to hit the road.
“The foremost symbolic thing will be done. And the fact that we didn’t do it on the first day of the campaign doesn’t take away from the seriousness with which we are going to attack this program.
“And as a matter of fact, again, we are also very keen not to have our voice and our efforts lost in the cacophony of the rest of the parties.
“So, we are taking our time. And within a few days, we will get it right.
“By the way, I think we are actually entitled to take a bit of our moment to really fine-tune how the process as the largest party on this continent.
“And I think there is something that needs to be said about that where anyone at the unit level like me comes from Delta state.
“My phone is constantly buzzing with people trying to get involved in the unit and up to ward levels, local government, and state levels.
“So, what we did was not just at the national level. That is not what really matters. But at the unit level, people are filled with this enthusiasm to get involved.
“Because they know and are confident that we are going to succeed. And because we are going to go out there to justify to Nigerians why we deserve another mandate to govern this country,” he noted.
He added that Asiwaju Tinubu is not sick as being widely speculated, urging Nigerians to also call out the health status of other presidential candidates such as the People’s Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi of the Labour Party. rather than nosing Tinubu around.
The APC National Publicity Secretary further stated that the absence of Tinubu at last week peace deal at the instance of National Peace Committee has nothing to do with any health challenge.
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