From Salihu Abdullahi Osuko, Giza

Media Aide To Sen. Umar Tanko Almakura.

APC as a Party has been in the fore front for bringing great change to our nation and communities and Senator Almakura is the leader we need as the next National Chairman of the party.

As a dedicated member of APC, Senator Almakura embodies the party's values of progress, integrity, and service to the people. With his wealth of experience and passion for community development, he is uniquely qualified to address the pressing issues facing the party.

Almakura's vision for the party is built on the principles of transparency, accountability, and community engagement. He will work tirelessly to deliver results, create opportunities, and improve the lives of the members.

Let's rally behind Senator and support him as our party Chairman. Together, we can build a brighter future for ourselves.

He is possessed of the most profound sense of humility and modesty regardless of his manifold achievements. He is, indeed, a man of easy manners. Al-Makura mirrors the actual image of a progressive politician with reform minded disposition. He believes that government should constantly reinvent itself in order to achieve the ultimate goal of socio-economic development.

The story of the religious tolerance and peaceful habitation in his home-state of Nasarawa, where he held sway as governor for two terms of eight unbroken years, is full proof of his leadership mettle. He is allergic to ethnic jingoism, religious bigotry, and other often employed schemes to divide our people into factions. He is foresighted enough to recognize that the socio-economic development of Nigeria transcends the strictures of ethnic and religious sentiments. The distinguished Senator is principled yet amendable to positive change and superior logic. He embodies the finest tradition of our nation’s political leadership. An admirable down-to-earth mien informs his private and public life.

It is often said that “You know the outcome of a day from the morning.” The connotation of this syllogism in connection with the nub of this piece, distinguished Senator Tanko Al-Makura would suggest that the man’s past should throw up expectations of what he will bring on board.

Senator Tanko Al-Makura is a man whose emotions are securely stable, steady, and intact to navigate the ship of the party. His inexhaustible bank of political experiences will be of immense benefit to the party at this time. The man is an elephantine reservoir of sociopolitical wits and uncommon stratagem. His borderless interconnectedness across different parts of the country is one of his defining features.

He has spread his tentacles across the length and breadth of the country, building bridges and enduring relationships. As one who is loyal to friendship, Senator Al-Makura enjoys enormous goodwill from his friends across the nooks and cranny of the country. At this time of heightened ethno-regional crises and increasing violent fronts opening up in different parts of the country.

Senator Al-Makura proved his mettle so eloquently in 2011 when he flew the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) flag as its governorship candidate, a newly registered political party. In a deft political prowess, he fought off an incumbent governor.

That is a rare feat of political ingenuity in our clime. It was a testimony of his sagacity and dexterity in the turf. It is even more profound when considering that the incumbent governor was from the ruling party at the center.

He is a man of enviable business acumen. In the wake of the botched Third Republic (1991-1993), Tanko Al-Makura was a member of the National Republican Convention (NRC). He gave his all and best for the party’s growth, particularly in his then home-state of old Plateau. As one who is always driven by leadership instincts, he contested and won election as the party’s State General Secretary before the military truncated that democratic dispensation. Senator Al-Makura has a solid and unparalleled pedigree in internal party administration. He understands the rudiments and intricacies involved in the daily management of a political party. To this end, rising to the rostrum to lead the APC at this auspicious time in the party’s history is not only a desirable call to duty that all should support, but it is equally a familiar terrain for him.

At the formation stage of the party, Senator Al-Makura was the only governor from one of the critical legacy parties, the CPC. He was a member of the merger committee representing the party. In an unprecedented magnanimity, he took full responsibility for funding and providing the necessary logistics for members of his former party throughout the merger talks that eventually gave birth to the APC. His desire to lead the party should be applauded as a man’s propensity to nurture what he labored with others in the trenches to build.

The immensity of Al-Makura’s contributions to the emergence of the APC as a formidable political platform that upstaged the once self-styled biggest party in Africa, the PDP from power at the center cannot be discountenanced. When the history books are written, His Excellency, distinguished Senator Umaru Tanko Al-Makura will indeed occupy a prime place of reckoning as one of the closest exemplars of Renaissance Men in the ruling All Progressives Congress.