The National Vice Chairman,
North-west of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Salihu Lukman has called
on President Bola Tinubu to direct the national Chairman of the party, Senator Abdulahi
Adamu and the Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore to fast-track organising the
mid-term convention to effect leadership change.
The party chieftain in a
statement issued on Tuesday said organising a mid-term convention became
necessary and compelling to correct the problem of having reactionaries and
conservatives such as Sen. Adamu and Sen. Omisore leading the party,
He noted that as long as the APC
is allowed to continue to operate a closed structure, blocking its organs from
functioning, Tinubu’s government would lack the needed political legitimacy to
win the support of Nigerians, especially when it comes to implementing
difficult policy choices.
Lukman stressed that while difficult decisions must be taken to effectively resolve the challenges facing the nation, however, in taking those difficult decisions, it would be much easier to implement when the government was able to win the support of Nigerians through engagements with organised groups.
He said often, engagements with
organised groups were narrowed to getting groups to accept decisions of the
government, adding that once this was the case, it meant the government would
always announce its decisions before it met with groups.
The national vice chairman said
this would also continue to produce situations whereby citizens represented by
their organisations would believe that the best way to engage the government
was through protests.
Lukman said how Tinubu proceeds
with the task of managing negotiations with organised labour on the fuel subsidy
matter would to a large extent determine the orientation of the new APC
government under his leadership.
He added that developing a
functional partnership relationship with organised labour, and by extension
other groups, required deeper political reforms in the country.
Lukman said: “To achieve that
would also demand more focus in reforming the APC as a political party, which
may have to compel President Tinubu to ask the APC leadership to organise
mid-term National Convention earlier than schedule.
“Some of the changes, for
instance, required to bring about new leadership who could lead the party to
achieve its vision of being a progressive party, can only be decided by the
National Convention.
“The earlier this is done, the
better for the young government of President Tinubu, especially if he wants to
run a progressive federal government, one that can guarantee the participation
by Nigerians represented by their organised groups in his government as
provided by the 1999 Nigerian constitution as amended.”
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