Progressive party targets 400,000 members in Jigawa

As the All Progressives Congress (APC) membership registration exercise nationwide entered the third day, people in Jigawa State rushed to the designated registration centres to be registered, with the party targeting about 400,000 members in the state.

Reports from the state indicated that the registration exercise was going on smoothly and the people were cooperating with registration officials.

This was disclosed by the Chairman of the State Caretaker Committee of the party, Alhaji Badaru Abubakar, shortly after the formal inauguration of his committee held at Three Star Hotel, Dutse.

Alhaji Badaru stated that, looking at the combination of personalities selected as members of the state caretaker committee, it was a clear manifestation that APC had a sincere will to rescue the country from PDP’s mis-governance which devalues the country.

The Chairman also thanked the national leadership of APC for endorsing their appointment and promised to carry all party members along with justice and fairness for the progress of the party at all levels.

He called all the APC members to go back to their polling units and register with the party en mass.

Speaking while inaugurating the committee, the Deputy Chairman of the North-West Zone, Barrister Salisu Fagge, who represented the National Chairman of the APC, said the main reason behind the coming of the APC as a formidable party in Nigeria is to rescue the people from the shackles of poverty, squalor and hunger, social and political instability created by PDP impunity.

Barrister Fagge said the selection of the caretaker committee members was based on personal merits and their track records as leaders in their own rights.

He then gave out the names of the state caretaker committee members as Alhaji Badaru Abubakar Talamis as the interim Chairman of the party; Barrister Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia (Secretary); Hon. Farouk Adamu Aliyu (treasurer); Hon. Nasiru Garba Dantiye (Organising Secretary); Barrister Bala Hamza (Legal Adviser); Barrister Bello Hassan Gada (Auditor); Rabi Isiak (Ex Officio); Alhaji Ubale Shitu (Ex officio) and Hajiya Binta Farin Dutse, Women Leader, among others.