Things Are Getting Out of Hand Under APC- Former Party Chair, Lukman Speaks
A former National Vice Chairman, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for North-West, Salihu Lukman, has acknowledged that
things are getting out of hand in Nigeria under the party.
The APC chieftain who disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja ahead of the public presentation of his new book, ‘APC and Transition Politics’ slated for next week Tuesday said Nigerians are going through tough times and that could lead to rebellion and a subsequent kick out of the party from office in the 2027 elections.
Lukman noted that it is an honest thing to tell President Tinubu the truth that the current democracy is not responsive, which he has done through his documentation.
He also added that it has now become a religious thing for the party which ought to be ‘progressive’ and other leaders of the country to feel very comfortable to imagine that they can do anything and get away with it.
He said: “I think we must be honest and this is the point I say to our leaders, without any inhibition, at the moment, our democracy is not responsive enough. We must appeal to our leaders that things are almost getting out of hand at the rate at which we are going under a party that is envisioned to be progressive.
“We are likely going to start witnessing rebellion and if care is not taken by 2027 we will be kicked out of office, which means taking Nigeria back to where it was in 2015. I think we owe our leader the responsibility or President Asiwaju the responsibility to tell him the honest truth.”
According to Lukman, his book, ‘APC and Transition Politics’ was part of efforts to address these concerns, as it documented the party’s experiences with the struggle under the transition that brought President Bola Tinubu.
He added that his resignation from the party’s National Working Committee was not a rebellion against President Tinubu, as made believe by some elements in the party.
“I didn’t rebel against the leadership of President Asiwaju. All I thought as a person what we owe president is to be able to tell him the truth, no matter what. And which was what I did. So I thought I could document and in that documentation is mainly, I mean some of the things I have done.
“I am convinced if you’re going to count possibly 10 people who have consistently, from the struggle against the caretaker committee to the emergence of President Asiwaju, if you’re going to count 10 people who consistently have been on the battlefront. I think I’m among those 10.”
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