Browsing: Salihu Lukman

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.

The DG of the body of governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, said this in an article he dedicated to the abducted students, some of who had escaped from their abductors, with the Katsina State Governor, Aminu Masari, saying those yet to be accounted for were 333.

Barrack Obama, former President of the United States of America, in his recently published Memoir: “A Promised Land,” asked the questions: “What made some movements succeed where others failed? Was it a sign of success when portions

Lukman made the assertion in a statement on Sunday in Abuja while speaking on the county’s democracy and the political class

He said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, adding that the lack of visible leadership was not advantageous to the protest as it made it vulnerable to takeover by hoodlums, who caused mayhem in several parts of the country

Lukman gave the charge on Friday in Abuja during the media presentation of his new book, titled: “APC and Progressive Politics in Nigeria.”

He made the call in a statement on Monday in Abuja, adding that the Federal Government and sub-national entities could not afford to ignore the demands by the youth.

Lukman said this in a statement in Abuja on Friday, adding that the council should ensure that APC campaign messages highlighted all developmental projects of the APC administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

Most of the public debate around the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress of Thursday were more about who was in control, who emerged victorious and what does that mean in terms of so-called 2023 projections. Whether in terms of interpreting court orders or provisions of the APC constitution, which would have influenced decision to convene the meeting and arrive at some of the resolutions, most Nigerians reduced the issues to strategic positioning of preferred APC leaders.

Somehow, vested interests who may have been furtively peddling false allegations against some Progressive Governors for the perspectives they hold about the crisis facing the party, are doing everything possible to impose their fantasies. All other perspective outside those fantasies are being criminalised and every attempt is being made to break the ranks of Progressive Governors

Lukman, who made the call in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, attributed the APC’s current crisis to the inability of the leadership to manage disagreements and resolve conflicts within the party.

Lukman, who gave the advice in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, urged the NEC to organise a National Convention of the party to replace members of the APC National Working Committee.