 Your Excellency the President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Amir Mlaouan. Your Excellency the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the family of Nabiya Mlaouan. Your Excellency the Caretaker Committee Chairman of a great party in the all progressive Congress and Governor of the United States. Maim Mlaouan is Excellency the Governor of the United States and Chairman of the Governor's Forum. Dr. Coyote Fiery, Excellency Chairman of the Progressive Governor's Forum, and Governor of KBSP, Alajia Pikkubabu, and other governors present. The Deputy President of the Senate, Distinguished Senator Oveel Omoagini, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Right Honourable Ahmed Wasan. Distinguished Senators present, Honourable Members present, Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gamberi. Members of the Federal Executive Council present, Members of the APC family. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome you to this meeting, which has in addition to the members of the Pride Party Committee established by His Excellency President Armando Wari. We also have representatives of the APC Governors as well as members of our party in the National Assembly. The Pride Party Committee as you know was conceived by Mr. President as a way of ensuring cordial, beneficial relationships between the Executive, the Legislature, the branches of government on the one hand, and the party on the other hand. The whole idea was to ensure that whenever there are issues that require deliberation or perhaps thorny issues, we are able to discuss them at the Pride Party Committee before taking them any further so that if those issues could be resolved at that level, then they are simply resolved and we can move on. We've had several meetings of the Pride Party Committee on several issues and many of those issues have been resolved, you know, to the benefit of our party and also to the benefit of our government. But at a couple of meetings, about three previous meetings of the Pride Party Committee, the issue of the proposal, first by the House of Representatives and then Senate, to restrict the conduct of grammaries of parties to only direct grammaries came up. The reason as it emerged from our discussions at the Pride Party Committee was that legislators felt that party congresses had been completely taken over by state government and other legislators and they as stakeholders stood no chance of the fair contest if the primaries, in the primaries, if all potential delegates and actors had already been spoken for. We then decided at the last meeting of the Pride Party Committee because these issues were laid before us and these, the various issues, the various sides of the question and various sides of the problem were laid before us. We then decided at the last meeting to call an expanded meeting where the leadership of the National Assembly, Governors and all other stakeholders that are present here would be able to deliberate on those issues and hopefully will be able to find solutions that will be acceptable to all but most importantly that would work in the interest of our party especially as we go into elections come 2023. Other speakers after me will elaborate further on the issues but I want to urge all present that in the course of our discussions today we should seek to find solutions, highlighting the pathways to an amicable resolution. Most of us who are here are probably familiar with what the issues are, the problems are, what we really want are solutions. If everybody takes time to speak again about all the issues and rehashes everything, we won't live here. I really think that it's important that we're able to get quickly to the issues and resolve them in a way that at least would be satisfactory. I think at this period more than ever we need peace and comfort within our party and I hope that this meeting will mark a new beginning in that direction and I hope that the conclusion of this meeting will only have good tidings to report to Mr. President. Thank you all very much for making the time for talk.