Abuja (Precise Post) – It has been established that after the National Convention of the All Progressive Congress (APC) which holds on 26 March, a full media structure for the party will be unveiled in Abuja.
The media structure which is part of the ongoing plans to project the ruling party positively in the minds of all Nigerians, both home and abroad, will see the unbundled and unveiling of APC online newspaper, http://www.apcnewsonline.ng, which is being test-run in the last 18 months and the APC News Studio temporarily located at Suite 6, Barcelona Hotel, by APC National Headquarters on Blantyre Street, Wuse 2 Abuja.
This much was disclosed by the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of APC Online News, Tom Ohikere, during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Directors held in Maitama, Abuja on Tuesday.
According to Ohikere, “it is pertinent to note that we have reached an advanced stage in our plan to establish a full-fledged Radio/Television station in Abuja which would house all the existing APC news online structures for the purpose of promoting and protecting the political integrity of the progressives. Our technical partners and consultants have made tremendous progress and technical submissions are enclosed in your files for this meeting.
“We are presently ready to take the media landscape by storm with informative and educative programmes as there will be so much to learn and information to accumulate about the All Progressives Congress since 2015. We are very prepared to be the news community and aggregators of APC News across the world.
“We are also endowed with the involvement of technocrats like Alhaji Lawal Ado who is the former Editor in Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mallam Sani Suleiman, the former Director of news of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Hon Ini Akpan Morgan who is the head of the APC Nigeria Diaspora Desk at the APC headquarters and Barr. Olakunle Ehinlanwo, a consummate process consultant and a community mobilizer.
“We are set to carry the nation along history lane, analyzing the past, present and projecting the future of the All Progressives Congress.
“With eminent Nigerians such as Engr. Sani Ndanusa, a public servant par excellence and a former minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Alhaji Usman Abubakar (a.k.a. Young Alhaji) a renowned businessman and staunch supporter of APC, and Otunba Abayomi Odunowo, a Chief Strategist and tactician of international repute, we will leverage on their goodwill for relevant contacts and patronage.
“With all these arrays of distinguished Nigerians, APC News Online will definitely change the political milieu that it has found itself, and once again become the darling of the electorates,” Ohikere added.