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APC PROMISED DEVOLUTION OF POWER, NOT RESTRUCTURING
The first National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), Chief Bisi Akande has taken a swipe at the party’s critics for alleging it jettisoned its promise of restructuring, saying the party never promised to restructure the country during its 2014/2015 campaigns. He said devolution of more power to the state was what the party has in its manifesto and promised. He blamed the National Assembly and security challenges for the party’s inability to fulfill its promises on devolution of power. In an interview with The Guardian to mark his 80th birthday holding on Wednesday, Akande said though he remains an apostle of restructuring, his party has not bought into…
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ADVANCING THE APC CHANGE AGENDA AND ROLE OF THE DIASPORA
INTRODUCTION Permit me to start by appreciating the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) who organise this APC-USA Second Annual Convention and who have kindly invited me to attend it as a Special Guest of Honour. I am excited and challenged by the theme of the convention, namely: “Advancing the APC Change Agenda, the Report Cards and the Role of the Diaspora”. In this address, I am merely restating the summary of the APC Change Agenda, which is clearly contained in the APC Manifesto launched in 2013 and which should have been well known to most members of this convention as leaders of APC in the USA. I am not…
