The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. AAbdullahi Ganduje has said that the National Institute for Progressive Studies which the party plans to establish would eliminate hate speech.
The chairman stated this on Wednesday in Abuja during a visit of INEC’s election and party monitoring team to the national secretariat of the party.
He commended the electoral body for its handling of the electoral process in spite of landmines buried in its ways by partisans.
Ganduje stated: “There is no doubt today is a historic day, the day of reckoning, accomplishment, in terms of the relationship between INEC, and political parties, particularly the ruling party APC,
“There is no doubt, it is important for INEC, to undertake such visits so that they can obtain the viability of political parties for the sake of planning and records and also as part of their duties as provided by law.
“I want to assure you that our party is a strong party. We are ready to provide all the information required. We want to make our party a very strong institution as required for the development of democracy. Therefore, we have decided to make our party active throughout the year, not only during elections.”
Ganduje said the leadership of the party has directed that all party offices from wards, local governments, zones, and states, to ensure the officers are available.
He added that the ruling party has decided to make the party is ICT compliant by directing e-registration of its members, saying he believed it would help them to partner with INEC.
The chairman noted: “This will help us in planning, identifying members, sex and age bracket in our party, qualification, professions of our party members, identities of our members right from ward level to the national level.
“We are developing what we call the National Institute for Progressive Studies in order to teach our members the basics of democracy so that the issue of hate speech will be eliminated.
“So, in order to understand the rules and regulations of elections, in order to understand what is required to be civilized politicians, our institutions will be educating our people from time to time so that they can abide by the rules.”