2027: APC Set to Take Over FCT – Ganduje

Other political parties are just going to escorting us to the villa come 2027. 

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is preparing to gain control of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in advance of the general elections that will take place in 2027.

At the Abuja Unity Rally, which took place on Thursday at the Old Parade Ground in Abuja, the ruling party formally welcomed Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, the Chairman of the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), along with his councilors and thousands of supporters from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) coming from all six area councils.

Ganduje, national chairman of the APC, made a statement at the event in which he said that the FCT is too strategically important to be controlled by the opposition. According to him, more than 60% of the people living in the FCT have now joined APC.

Ganduje said, “With this new political realignment, the APC is on track to produce the FCT’s only Senator, its two House of Representatives members, and all area council chairmen.

“As part of the Renewed Hope Agenda, today we have started seeing that FCT will be converted to APC. Today we have a great political giant, we have the chairman of AMAC which is the most popular local government in the Federal Capital Territory. 

“The chairman with all his elected councilors, with all his appointed councilors, with all the politicians from PDP, they have decided to come to our great party, the APC. He has come with his thousands of supporters.

“Also, we have decampees from Bwari Area Council. We have decampees from Kuje Area Council, we have decampees from Abaji Area Council, we have decampees from Kwali Area Council, we have decampees from Gwagwala Area Councils.

“What remains now? Almost all the politicians, all the people, and indeed more than 60 percent of the Federal Capital Territory is now APC.”

Notable party leaders from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and the North Central area, including members of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) headed by Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, current and past ministers, and Yahaya Bello, are also present at the event to welcomed the defectors.

Also speaking, Yahaya Bello, the ex-governor of Kogi state and a member of the APC said, “All the Area Councils will be APC, it is just a little time that will take. Let me commend our national chairman, let me commend the state chairman of FCT, Alhaji Usman for all the wonderful job he’s being doing. 

“When I came into this arena I was shocked to see the mammoth crowd that turned out within this shortest possible time. 

“Let me tell you that this mandate that Mr President is carrying, is the mandate of the people and the people of this country have spoken and I want to assure you that come 2027, there is no vacancy in Aso Rock.

“I will use this opportunity once again, to appreciate all founding fathers of our party, Mr President, Bola Ahmed Tinubu played a significant and very pivotal role in ensuring that we have a party we are all trouping to join today.

“Our former president as the first president under the platform of the APC, former President Muhammadu Buhari. He has said it time without number that he remains a father in APC and he is a member of APC. 

“Let nobody mistake it that Mr President and former President have any issue. In fact, they continue to confer in moving this country forward. So we have APC intact, I call on all other members of the party who have one issue or the other, you can’t build a house and run away from it. I urge everybody, let’s come together and unite. Other political parties are just going to escorting us to the villa come 2027. 

“Come back, when you are inside APC, and you are making your demands you are talking but if you leave APC and you are outside APC and you are making demands, you are simply making noise and those of us that are inside APC we will tell you to keep quiet. Therefore, APC is the owner of Nigeria today and tomorrow.”

Hon. Abdulmalik Usman, Chairman of APC in FCT has given his word that the party will redouble its efforts to ensure that the ruling party wins control of the nation’s capital prior to the general election in 2027.