Hon. Ali Bukar Dalori is the Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, that party on whose plank the current federal administration is powered, alongside governorship leadership figures in 24 states, while the embattled Peoples Democratic Party can only boast having a hold on just 10 states, with APGA, NNPP, and LP having a state each.

So far, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Administration had just marked its two years in office, listing its catalogue of democratic scorecards, which is more of a midterm review, in the ability of elected representatives to manage the gains of their electoral successes by way of returns on electoral investments.

Looking at the development administrative rating of the APC-powered federal administration, a lot had been achieved under the political leadership of Tinubu, President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

These brilliant administrative scorecards recorded by the Tinubu-led administration and ignorantly criticized by some so-called members of the opposition parties, “as not being enough evidence of performance,” in their narrow-minded understanding, contrary to these dysfunctional worldviews, are by any standards very credible, cogent, and verifiable milestone midterm achievements.

Besides, the lines of achievement by Tinubu are commendable, given the enormous burden on the shoulders of the administration and coupled with the global economic recession experienced in the last two years of this government.

As the party prepares to hold its national convention in December 2025, which is a routine exercise constitutionally required by all political parties as part of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines, there is a huge task before Hon. Ali Bukar Dalori as the Acting National Chairman of APC.

However, given the exceptionally unique nature of his personality development schemes, which are founded on creativity, innovativeness, wisdom, skilled competencies, cognitive and instinctual reasoning, amongst many other divinely endowed human attributes, Hon. Dalori as Acting National Chairman would surmount whatever issues, values, and norms that may appear as challenges.

A two-term lawmaker at the Borno State House of Assembly, who had honed himself early on in his political career, first as Councilor and later Chairman of his native home, Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State, Dalori is definitely no stranger to issues of political interests aggregation, party intrigues, power play, power game, and lines of both behaviour compliance and behaviour discrepancies in politics.

From all assurances, Dalori, the urbane man of all seasons, is set to place the All Progressives Congress party on a sound footing in six months, which in many respects would be viewed by most curious Nigerians, from within and outside the APC family bloc, as a litmus test, being a stable and balanced personality with focus, sense of purpose, uncommon zeal, and courage.

While we congratulate him on his well-deserved appointment as Acting National Chairman of the APC, a party he was part of as its founding member and helped to nurture to its present stage, navigating through any administrative matters of interest or possible disagreements would not be a stumbling block for quick resolution by him and members of his team who populate the Central Working Committee of the party.

Very remarkable is the fact that Hon Dalori long struck very cordial working relationship profiles with these gentlemen of honour and distinction over the years.

As a highly esteemed, well-cultured, disciplined, humble, hardworking, and God-fearing political leadership figure, all APC chieftains, members, and supporters nationwide are not in doubt about the leadership capacities of the Acting National Chairman to provide quick interventionist solutions to matters of party interest as they crop up for urgent attention, which is the hallmark of a leader.

By virtue of his political tenacity and sagacity, steering the affairs of the party leading to the last days before the party holds its convention is certainly assured and an established statement of confidence that all APC chieftains, members, and supporters nationwide can take to the bank.

The appointment of Dalori would no doubt help in consolidating on the very credible milestone achievements recorded by his predecessor, His Excellency, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the two-term Executive Governor of Kano State, who had recorded lots of forward-looking achievements in the two years of the Tinubu-led administration.

The fact that Dalori is going to reunite the APC as the political party in power across all the states of the Federation, given his antecedents as the pioneer Coordinating Chairman of all the APC State Forum Chairmen in Nigeria, is a cheering development.

For Hon. Dalori, it is a cogent and verifiable fact that he, like most of his political peers nationwide, had all your names written in gold as key players of the once historically premised zero party Councilorship/Chairmanship experience of the political transition program of the defunct President Ibrahim Babangida-led administration, and we expect to tap from your rich reservoir of knowledge-premised experience to bring value addition as we look forward to the pre-national convention days ahead, preparatory to the 2027 presidential and general polls.

At least, your early and exceptional experience in grassroots political interests aggregation, in the belief and conviction of the National Agenda For Tinubu 2027 (NAFT.27), has placed you on a very solid pedestal as the APC Acting National Chairman of our great party.

It has also presented you as a leadership personality who possesses the instinctual capacity, knowledge base, skillset competences, experience, and brilliance to function effectively all through your tenure as may be duly directed by President Tinubu.

As this two-time former Borno State lawmaker, now Acting National Chairman of the APC, settles down to begin his official primary assignment, there are lots of expectations from within and outside the establishment circles of the government, including keen observers of the polity, as to how he would manage and navigate the challenges that lie ahead.

Being a man of subtle creativity laced with a high degree of emotional, cognitive, investigative, social, and native intelligence, the National Agenda For Tinubu 2027 predicts that Dalori is set to spring huge surprises in his new national assignment besides managing and repositioning the great party.
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