Tinubu : Group calls for inclusion of Ex Envoy in campaign council for effective Mobilization in Taraba

Uluru Samuel Adaji Jalingo 

 A group known as The Friends of Jagaban Initiative (FOJI) has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to include a former Nigerian Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Alhaji Hassan Ardo on the Presidential Campaign Council of the party for effective mobilization of the people in Taraba.

The Deputy State Coordinator of FOJI in Taraba Mr Bashir Bakari who made the call in Jalingo on Monday said that Ardo, a founding father of the party in the state and pioneer chairman of APC in Taraba has distinguished himself as an excellent party man who led the party to victory in the botched 2015 general elections in the state.

The group said that the inclusion of Ardo was crutial for the success of the party in the state and commended the APC led government for the various projects interventions in the state.

FOJI Taraba also commended  the inclusion of some of its leaders in the 2023 Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), especially the recognition of Garba Umar (UTC), Hon Jerry Manwe amongst many others .

“As Oliver Twist, FOJI Taraba Chapter hereby appeals for the inclusion of Ambassador Hassan Ardo, a former ambassador to Trinidad and Tobego as a member of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) in an effort to ensure the success of APC in Taraba State with landslide come 2023.

“Ardo is no doubt a founding member of the APC from CPC days and has served as the Pioneer Chairman of the party and a true mobilizer who took the party to the botched victory in both presidential and Governorship elections in 2015. 

“We remain grateful to the APC for the proper integration of those repentant PDP members but there is this popular adage that says “you don’t divorce your first wife because you have married a second wife”. We still need the likes of Hassan Ardo, Aaron Artimas, Dr Yakubu Tor-Agbidye, Hon Orbee Uchiv amongst many others to be carried along in the scheme of things as far as the APC in Taraba is concerned.

The National Director of the group Alhaji AbdulGaniyu Funso who was in the in continuation of his mobilization for Bola Tinubu, explained that: 

“Friends of Jagaban Initiative (FOJI) is a political support group of over seven million Nigerian youths from diverse socio-cultural groups, with core objectives of promoting democracy and supporting all candidates of the All APC in the forthcoming general elections. 

“FOJI comprises mainly of professionals in various fields including but not limited to Engineers, lawyers, Media Practitioners, Pharmacists, as well as artisans and entrepreneurs home and in diaspora.

“FOJI, using its structures at the international and at local levels, have been able to identify problems and proffered workable solutions to ensure success of the party ahead of the 2023 general elections in which Taraba State should equally benefit from its wealth of ideas in resolving party impasse in which Taraba State APC is presently confronted with. 

Aishatu Saidu, who spoke on behalf of the women noted that throughout his days as the state chairman of the party, Ardo was able to manage the party efficiently and such that there was never a single internal litigations.

“Our great party is facing serious threats in the state and they all emanated internally. Litigations and infighting is what is nearly killing the party now. 

“However, if we go down memory, we would remember that throughout his time as the Chairman of the party, the APC never had such crisis. 

“Grievances were resolved very quickly and mostly avoided. Ardo provided the needed leadership for our party and I make bold to say that including him on the list of the party’s PCC will be a major plus for the party” she said. 


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