APC Must Improve Its Internal Democracy – Ganduje

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Ganduje has come out to say that he is determined to reclaim Edo State.

He recently had his say during a meeting with Edo State Stakeholders, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, Edo State has always been an APC state, and the fact that APC has only one state from the South-South in Nigeria is simply not acceptable.

Ganduje added that the party must improve its internal democracy and move towards having a party ideology that leads to victories.

His words, “Edo is an APC state. Now we have to take Edo back. We have only one state from the South-South for the greatest party in Africa, it’s not acceptable. We were able to get only Cross River State after crossing so many rivers, we succeeded in getting Cross River State. But Edo State, we must get it.

Two, we have to improve our internal democracy – we have to deepen and widen it. We need to understand the party and its manifesto…its rules and regulations. We need to understand its philosophy. We need to move towards having a party ideology so that we will not be an ordinary political association whereby everybody can come in just to win the election. You have to believe in the doctrine of the party – become a full member of the party.

To widen it, we need to increase our followership. So internal democracy is very important. We have to be transparent and at the same time, we have to also adopt a guided democracy where we can discuss issues so that we limit if possible the number of contests. Even though it’s not a crime if we have a large number. The party will get more revenue but that’s not the issue.”