The Director-General of the
Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has blamed National Chairman of the
All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, for the diminishing
fortunes of the party.
In a letter entitled “APC: Appeal
for Reconciliation,” dated August 6, 2019 addressed to Oshiomhole, Lukman said:
“As a loyal party member, I have difficulty reconciling the absence of meetings
of superior organs given all the challenges the party is going through,
warranting the suspension of three serving governors (two of them now Senators)
and two members of NWC.”
Assessing Oshiomhole’s
leadership, Lukman declared: “My distant observation is that there is hardly
any difference between your approach in managing the party and the way Chief
Oyegun had managed it during his tenure.
“Instead, things have really got
worse and painfully, it would appear, you are in denial of this reality.”
He noted: “It would appear that
the leadership problems facing the party are getting deeper and in the
circumstances the business of building the party will be sacrificed.”
He also lamented the loss of
governorship contests in Zamfara, Oyo, Imo, Bauchi and Adamawa owing to
internal wrangling, warning similar scenarios might play out in Kogi, Ondo and
Edo.
Lukman said: “It is a painful
reality that we have found ourselves in situation of near stalemate in many
states under your leadership.
“Embarrassingly, our leaders,
including your very self, appear to be stubbornly inconsiderate of other
options of resolving these challenges.
“If the electoral loss of Oyo,
Imo, Zamfara, Adamawa and Bauchi are not a wakeup call to the dangers that lie
ahead, what could have been?
“Is it that our leaders are
indifferent to the possible return of People’s Democratic Party (PDP)?”
The Progressive Governors Forum
DG added: “In all my years of association with you, I never imagine that one
day you will be so comfortable as to be indifferent to challenges that could
threaten our national democratic development.”
Urging the APC National Chairman
to allow room for divergent views while proffering solutions to problems, as
against grandstanding, he said: “Grandstanding with reference to technicalities
is the trade mark of Nigerian lawyers, with due apologies, which has produced
the reality whereby the capacity of our legal and Judicial systems to deliver
justice are weak.
“Once our reference point is some
of those technical details, which rationalises where we are, the tendency is
that all proposals will be reduced to conquest scenarios, which may only deepen
and create new conflicts.”
He queried the refusal of
Oshiomhole to convene meeting of organs of the party, especially the National
Executive Committee (NEC) and National Caucus, stating his predecessor, John
Odigie-Oyegun was removed for same infraction.
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