National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje has commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for its handling of the electoral process in spite of landmines buried in its ways by partisans.
He spoke on Wednesday in Abuja during a visit by INEC’s election and party monitoring team to the Buhari House national secretariat of the party.
Ganduje said, “There is no doubt today is a historic day, the day of reckoning and accomplishment, in terms of the relationship between INEC and political parties, particularly the ruling party APC.
“There is no doubt that it is important for INEC to undertake such visits so that they can obtain the viability of political parties for the sake of planning and records and also as part of their duties as provided by law.
“I want to assure you that our party is a strong party. We are ready to provide all the information required. We want to make our party a very strong institution, as required for the development of democracy. Therefore, we have decided to make our party active throughout the year, not only during elections.
“We have also directed that in all our party offices, ranging from wards to local governments, zones, and states, basically the officers must be available. And operationally, the office must be functioning.
“Also, we have decided to make our party ICT-compliant. We have directed the e-registration of our members, and we believe that will help us partner with INEC. This will help us in planning, identify members, sex and age brackets in our party, qualifications, professions of our party members, and identities of our members right from the ward level to the national level.
“We are developing what we call the National Institute for Progressive Studies in order to teach our members the basics of democracy so that the issue of hate speech will be eliminated.