Salihu Lukman, north-west vice-chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), has criticised Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman,
over the way he is handling the affairs of the ruling party.
In a letter dated May 27 and addressed to Adamu, Lukman said
activities for the party’s convention to pick a presidential candidate are
“being handled informally”.
The vice-chairman said the national chairman needs new
initiatives in handling the affairs of the party.
“The presidential aspirants are yet to be screened. The
official explanation is that you are awaiting final consultation with President
Buhari,” he said.
“At the risk of sounding agitated, this is unfair to
President Buhari because to the best of my understanding it is an attempt to
use the president’s name to give excuses for failure, if it happens, which
should not be the case.
“As NWC and as our leader being the National Chairman, I
want to appeal to you on the need for new initiatives in managing the party.
“At the rate we are going, we are walking back to the old
spot of over centralised implementation of party decisions around the national
chairman.
“Increasingly, critical challenges of managing important
tasks such as organising National convention to produce a presidential
candidate of the party is being handled informally. This should not be so, and
everything must be done to correct that.”
While applauding him for some of the steps he has taken in
repositioning the national secretariat, the former director-general of the
Progressives Governors Forum (PGF) said Adamu needs to “standardise” the
actions as a norm.
“Apart from the Directors, there are many workers in the
Secretariat that should go,” he said.
“However, important and laudable as these decisions would
appear to be, is inadequate if it is not matched with initiatives to
standardize operational practices in the National Secretariat, especially in
terms of ensuring that employment requirement conforms with extant labour laws.
As the ruling party, this must be guaranteed.
“As things are, we have suspended every initiative to reform
the Secretariat, understandably so given all the challenges of meeting
deadlines for electing party candidates for 2023 general elections.
“The danger is that what we inherited will soon become the
acceptable practice and new directors and workers would be employed without any
commitment to meeting provisions of the law with respect to employment
standards.”
Lukman lamented that after two months since national working
committee (NWC) members assumed office, no decision has been taken to pay them.
“This is very unhealthy and should be corrected. Partly.
this is giving legitimacy for many unethical practices, which would appear to
be influencing the conducts of some members of the NWC,” he said.
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