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Bisi Akande berates APC leadership, calls registration wasteful

Mr. Akande called out the Buhari-led administration, deeming its use of state resources wasteful and unappreciative in light of the state of the economy.

• February 4, 2021
Bisi Akande
Bisi Akande

Founding National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has made a scathing remark on the present membership registration activity of the party, describing the decision of the Mai Mala Buni-led National Caretaker Committee to embark on a fresh membership registration as an aberration.

“These seeming ugly perceptions put into abeyance the applause of the two national election successes that the original APC register enjoyed since its completion on 15th February 2014 and the over one billion Naira of 2014’s value that the original register cost when APC had no money of its own,” he said.

“Within this context, I see the present APC membership registration within less than a decade after the original register as an indefensible aberration leading to certain ugly perceptions.”

Mr. Akande spoke on Wednesday after being registered by the delegation of his party led by Senator Lawan Shuaib at his ward in Ila-Orangun, Osun State.

The former governor of Osun State also called the Caretaker Executive Committee of the party an abnormality.

Mr. Akande urged the present Caretaker Executive Committee to resist temptations of “sit-tight syndromes” which he gave, is seen in most underdeveloped countries of the world, where its leadership is handpicked.

He called out the Buhari-led administration, deeming its use of state resources wasteful and unappreciative in light of the state of the economy.

Mr. Buni in a statement issued Thursday through his Director-General, Press and Media Affairs, declared the registration and revalidation exercise is to assist the party generate up-to-date data on party membership.

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