BY BENEDICT NWACHUKWU, ABUJA
An aspirant to the national chairmanship position in the ruling All Progressives Congress, Sunny Monidafe has assured party members intending to run for elective offices in the country of a level playing ground.
Monidafe gave the assurance, when he visited the Buhari House secretariat of the party in Abuja, Wednesday.
He said he had held several posts in politics from where he garnered adequate experience to enable him steer the ship of the party to safety.
Monadife said, “I aspire to lead the party because I have held several positions in various parties from local government level to national level from 1996. I was a delegate, contested election into the House of Representatives, became AMAC Chairman ACD before it merged with AD and became AC and several positions later.”
He stated that the time has come for the country to be on the right track of development and end the idea of borrowing from other countries that were not even able to fix their own problems.
Monadife said, “When I become the national chairman of APC, I will make sure we relegate the idea of running to the UN and the other unions of the world for any issues, seeing that these countries cannot even help themselves.
“I’m here to offer myself to serve, to make Nigeria a better place. I’m happy with what is happening in the world now. In the past some people will say anything the President does, we report him to the United Nations, US or UK. If we get things right in our country, things will begin to work.”
He acknowledged being an Urhobo man from Adamawa State and maintained that such narrative should not be an impediment to his ambition.
“I am Urhobo man from Adamawa State. I have been made the Jagaban of Jimeta, to be turbaned in September. My father travelled from Urhobo land to Jimeta by boat in 1950 and I was born and bred up in Jimeta. That makes me a son of the soil,” he said.
He applauded the National Chairman Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Gov Mai Mala Buni for great achievements the party recorded under his leadership but added that Buni was too occupied to be the substantive party chairman.
“I cannot talk against the current leadership. I’m the person that knows Buni very well; Mai Mala Buni is the current governor of Yobe State,” he added.
