APC Sets up Committee to Investigate Buhari’s Defeat in Anambra

APC Sets up Committee to Investigate Buhari’s Defeat in Anambra

David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Anambra State has set up a committee to investigate the reason for the abysmal performance of its presidential candidate in the just concluded election, President Muhammadu Buhari.

The party said it is confident of its popularity in the state, and was surprised that its candidate lost the election in the state, and as such, was set to investigate the reasons behind it, with a view to moving the party forward in subsequent elections, and punishing those found culpable.

The acting state Chairman of the party, Basil Ejidike, who addressed state executive members of the party during a meeting held in Awka to inaugurate the committee, said the committee would investigate the role of every stakeholder in the state during the election.

In his address, he said: “Political parties are formed for the sole purpose of winning elections, and if we cannot win election, then we are not in business.

“That is the reason  we set up this fact-finding committee that will deeply probe what happened before and during the last general election, which saw our party (APC) lying prostrate and without anything to show for it existence and participation in the election.”

President Buhari scored about 33,000 votes in the last presidential election in the state, while his opponent in the PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, scored over 500,000 votes.

Though Ejidike insisted that the score in Anambra State was a big leap, considering its score in the state in 2015, he insisted that it is determined to investigate the role of its stakeholders, candidates and members in the election to ascertain the reason for its abysmal performance with a view to performing better.

The acting chairman, while handing out to the committee the term of reference,  said its job also includes highlighting areas of strength of the party in the state, with a view to maximising it in future elections.

He said: “Nothing should be left untouched in our collective quest to unravel what actually went wrong and to see what can be done to redirect and re-strengthen the party on a sustainable path of growth and development.

“The committee also has the powers to recommend sanctions where necessary.”

He added that the committee has two weeks to submit its report as it would form a working document for a summit of the party in the state which would hold at the end of April.

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