Salihu Lukman, immediate-past vice-chair of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-west, says the party did not witness
any reforms under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
In an open letter addressed to leaders of the ruling party
on Wednesday, Lukman said the party remained “motionless” under the former
president.
The former director-general of the Progressive Governors
Forum (PGF) has been calling for a reform of the party.
He said APC is increasingly becoming a replica of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) “with all the negative attributes”.
“We have spent eight
years under former President Buhari motionless, in terms of developing the
needed initiatives for party building,” Lukman said.
“Are we also going to experience another era of zero
initiative for party building under the leadership of President Asiwaju Tinubu?
Where is the claim of being progressives? Where then is the justification or
any link to being an awoist?
“It is no doubt agonising and troubling that President
Asiwaju Tinubu is starting his leadership tenure of APC by sending a very
strong disturbing signal that reforming the APC is not his priority.
“Because reforming
the APC is not his priority, out of all the leadership materials available to
the party, Dr. Ganduje is his best candidate.”
The ex-PGF DG said the “simple defeat” of PDP and producing
Buhari and now Tinubu as presidents of Nigeria equates to the political change
Nigerians are desirous of.
“So long as APC will allow a situation that could be
interpreted to mean consolidating the old political paradigm that promotes lack
of accountability and imposition of leadership, it means betrayal of the
founding mission of APC,” he said.
Lukman said as a loyal party member, he will keep calling
for a reform of the party.
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