Security Will Top Our Agenda For 2023 Polls – APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the issue of security will be the front banner its agenda for the 2023 general election and beyond.

National vice chairman of the party (North-West), Mallam Salihu Lukman, stated this when he led zonal officials in the geopolitical zone to meet with the party leader in Sokoto State, Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, and other party stakeholders in the state.

The meeting, according to a statement personally signed by Lukman, is in continuation of the party’s fact-finding tour on how to sustain the tempo in areas the party “is doing excellently well, and to improve on areas that the party has built something to stand upon and re-strategize for few gray areas to be addressed has listened to the yearnings and aspirations of the people of Sokoto State through the stakeholders who represent the interests of their people.”

Lukman listed the current security challenges “bedeviling the zone and the entirety of North, particularly Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and of course Kebbi State among other states of the country,” as part of the matters discussed at the meeting.

He said as an agent of the people as well as that of the party, he would join the party’s elders such as Senator Wamakko take the matter to the appropriate authority with all sense of commitments, adding that “security issue will be the front banner of the party’s agenda for 2023 and beyond.”

On his part, the APC leader in Sokoto State, Senator Wamakko expressed delight over the manner in which the party is operating at the zonal level, even as he pledged support for the zonal structure of the party at whatever capacity it needs him.