Dr. Salihu Lukman, the All Progressives Congress (APC) North-West National Vice Chairman, has reiterated his request for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and National Secretary, Iyiola Omisore.
During an interview on AIT on Tuesday, he emphasized that the APC needed to reshuffle its leaders.
Lukman added that the party has to reactivate all organs while complaining that the National Working Committee (NWC) chaired by Senator Abdullahi Adamu has refused to convey the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting after a year.
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“We must emphasize that acting as a party requires that we activate the organs of the party to function. And I think this is the struggle we have been waging, and once the organs of the party are not working, then even the capacity to hold leaders to account will be weak,” he said.
“And that is where we are, and that is partly what is producing some of the unhealthy development in (the party). For instance, Osun State, which is part of the reason why I said the National Secretary has failed, in terms of stabilizing Osun and uniting people.
“Part of the issue with that is that I’m aware the party has given some campaign funds to Osun, which was handled by the National Secretary, and to some extent, he has either mismanaged it, but more importantly, he’s not accounting to anybody, and you have to activate the process of accountability.
“And for me, I think as part of the process of accountability in order to stabilize Osun, I think the National Secretary should also vacate his seat,” he insisted.
He stated that calls for Adamu’s resignation were part of the sacrifice that the ruling party needed to make in order to calm the country down. He emphasized that the APC chairman’s resignation would clear the door for a Christian chairman from the North-west to take over the party’s leadership.
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According to him, the entire goal of this is to be able to begin to defuse the tension, but more importantly, to get the party and moral authority to try the process of negotiation in forming the next government’s leadership.
His words: “What you see as the support for Labour Party and even the support for PDP, I can prove it is a protest vote against the APC. No more, no less
“And what we should continue asking ourselves constantly, what it is that we have done that is producing this protest vote? and we need to respond to it in a way that really give confidence to Nigerians that we are truly that party of change, which Nigerians have confidence in in 2015 and 2019, and will continue to have confidence in now 23 and beyond. I think that is the challenge before all of us.”
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