In the wake of his resignation as the Vice-Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman warns that the party may be setting itself up for “destruction” with the potential emergence of former Kano State Governor Abdullahi Ganduje as its National Chairman.
The position was made known in a statement on Thursday, barely 24 hours after the APC stalwart resigned as a member of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) rather than become what he described as a source of distraction for the new administration of President Bola Tinubu.
This came after the recent resignation of Sen. Abdullahi Adamu and Sen. Iyiola Omisore as the National Chairman and National Secretary, respectively.
Lukman, who has long been a critic of several of the party’s internal issues, argued that the party’s constitution provides that the duo’s replacements emerge from their respective states.
“If Osun State is debating possible replacement of Sen. Omisore for the position of National Secretary of APC in line with provisions of our party’s constitution, why is Nasarawa State not treated in the same way? Why the double standards?” he queried.
Referring to Tinubu as the moral leader of the APC, Lukman said, “If the scheming to have Dr. Ganduje emerge as the next National Chairman of APC succeeds with all the legal and moral questions, as a party, we would have set the stage for the destruction of our party and God forbids, we would have laid the foundation that will make President Asiwaju Tinubu and all our elected representatives unpopular.”