*says AA ‘ll win 10 states in general elections
By; BAYO AKAMO, IbadanNational Chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Honourable Adekunle Rufai Omoaje on Thursday said the party is not ready to zone its presidency to any part of the country come 2023 general election.
Addressing members of the party at an emergency National delegates convention in Ibadan, the National Chairman declared that the party’s presidential candidate for the general elections of the party can come from any part of the country.
Honourable Omoaje stressed that Action Alliance believes in integrity, excellence and capacity to lead the country and that any individual with those attributes can contest for the presidential position under the platform of the party.
“We believe in the best and we will present the best person as our candidate in the presidential election. It doesn’t matter where the candidate come from as long as he is qualified and posses the attributes of a good leader, our party we present him”, he said.
Honourable Omoaje added, ” we are not interested in where anybody comes from. I want to assure Nigerians that our party will present a formidable candidate come 2023. We are ready to bring about positive change and solutions to the problems confronting Nigerians”.
Speaking on the Electoral Reforms Act, Honourable Omoaje stressed that he is optimistic that President Muhammadu Buhari will sign it into law in the interest of democracy and that AA would win not less than 10 states in the 2023 general election.
Honourable Omoaje whose position as the national chairman of the party was reaffirmed by delegates at the convention, said the National Convention was an annual event of the party where critical decisions are taken in the interest of the party, adding that delegates were drawn from all the 36 states of the country including the Federal Capital Territory.
The National Chairman while insisting that there is relative peace in the party, said “this convention was planned and scheduled to hold as it did today with a notification sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the 29th of November, 2021 to ensure compliance with the 21 days required by law’.
“The INEC later requested for the agenda of the convention and this baffled us because it was attached to the notification sent to INEC. However, the agenda was taken to INEC as requested.”
