This was disclosed in a statement titled ‘Fallacious Politics of 2023’ and issued on Sunday in Abuja by his media handler.
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Salihu Lukman, National Vice Chairman of APC, Northwest made this known Friday while briefing newsmen at the party’s zonal office in Kaduna.
This simply means that you want to exercise the same privilege, which is being exercised by Governors, in determining who succeeds you as the standard bearer of our party, APC, for the 2023 Presidential election.
Since Monday, March 7, 2022, when His Excellency Abubakar Sani Bello and the other ten members of the 13-member APC Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) announced their resolve to ensure that the March 26 APC National Convention hold, there have been deliberate attempts to question the legitimacy of decisions taken by the APC. Media reports are deliberately planted to suggest so-called confusion in the party. Some party leaders and members have declared opposition to His Excellency Abubakar Sani Bello and the CECPC and are mobilizing Nigerians to only recognize His Excellency Mai Mala as the only person who should preside over the affairs of the party. While some can disclose their identity in declaring their opposition, some timid leaders who are not so courageous, do so using surrogates.
Lukman was the immediate past Director-General of the Progressives Governors Forum, an umbrella body of serving governors elected on the platform of the APC.
It was learnt that although the APC Governors met on Sunday to discuss the National Convention, they also deliberated on the DG
Lukman said this in a public letter to the leaders of the APC on Monday in Abuja while reacting to the development.
The DG of the group for Governors elected on the platform of the APC gave the advice at the launch of his book in Abuja.
The Director General of the umbrella body for governors elected on the platform of the APC, said this in a statement.
In 2019, the Director-General, Progressives Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, supported direct primaries for selecting parties’ candidates
The Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Salihu Lukman, says that despite all the outrage over the mounting external borrowings,…
In an opinion article entitled ‘Narrow Politics and Questions of Democratic Development’, Lukman said it is disappointing that a sitting governor and retired public servants could be promoting “wild goose” campaigns, adding that those doing so, including a sitting governor, are exhibiting what he called “morbid symptoms.”
Lukman said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, saying that the idea of amending the Constitution to enable state governments to establish state police was unavoidable.
Professor Jega had said during an interview on the BBC Hausa Service on August 2, 2021 that both PDP and APC had failed the nation, and advised Nigerians not to entrust either of them with their mandate again.
Lukman said this in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja, adding that the allegation that the government is a failure is without substantiation.
Apparently miffed by PDP’s reaction to President Buhari’s well publicized interview on Arise Television, Lukman says it is a ‘patently political fact’ that the opposition party is efficient only at mismanaging public resources; and that without any attempt to reform itself, its leaders want to take advantage of the challenges facing Nigerians to win elections.
The director-general of the Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, believes that the strongest opponent of the APC is within the party itself, and that if it is able to manage the process of internal contest and sustain unity among its members/leaders, it will be able to the win the 2023 elections.
The DG said this in a statement he issued on Monday hours after Buni, the Yobe State Governor and Chairman of the party’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, and Bello, Governor of Kogi State, met with the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain in Abuja
He said this while reacting to the directive of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State that herdsmen should vacate the state within seven days and the reaction of the Presidency warning against such move.
He said this while reacting to the directive of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State that herdsmen should vacate the state within seven days and the reaction of the Presidency warning against such move.