Salihu Lukman, director-general of Progressive Governors’
Forum, says Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), has “hawked” the party’s soul to “buccaneers” whose interests
are winning elections unfairly.
Recently, there has been unrest in the party concerning Edo
governorship election scheduled for September.
Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo state, resigned his
membership of the APC on Tuesday after he
was disqualified from running for the party’s ticket.
The governor has since said he would pursue his second term
bid on another platform.
In a statement on Tuesday, Lukman said it is a
“disconcerting reality” to be part of an undemocratic political platform which
is intolerant of basic tenets of free and fair contests.
The director-general said without even recalling the party’s
outing at the 2019 general election, every APC member should be worried.
“It is very difficult and challenging to come to terms with
unfolding development in APC. The disconcerting reality of becoming clobbered
into another undemocratic political platform, which is intolerant to basic
tenets of free and fair contests is hard to admit,” he said.
“Being troubled should have spurred us into some sober
reflections with the objective of remedying the situation. Unfortunately, it
would appear that we are more determined to reproduce all the obdurate painful
experiences, every time we are faced with electoral contests.
“It was Rivers, Zamfara and Bayelsa. Now Edo and Ondo are
basically on a roller-coaster with perhaps emerging with the same predictable
outcome that consumed our electoral victories in Zamfara and Bayelsa States.
Why should this be allowed to happen?
“It is clear that, APC leadership as currently constituted
under the leadership of Comrade Oshiomhole is imprudent and cannot be entrusted
with the task of leading the party.
“Comrade Oshiomhole’s NWC has hawked the soul of the party
to political buccaneers whose narrow interest is just about unfairly winning
elections.”
Lukman said Oshiomhole has failed on his promises to provide
a party register in all the state and set up a mechanism for conflict
resolution in the party.
“APC does not belong to anybody. It is a product of
sacrifice by leaders and members of our old legacy parties,” the
director-general said.
“Nobody should contemplate leaving the party on account of
the rascality going on in the party under Comrade Oshiomhole’s leadership. All
members of the party and lovers of democracy in Nigeria must rise against what
is going on in APC. It is a struggle for the soul of APC.”
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Where you dey since, after court don suspend Oshiomhole before you know how to talk. I blamed Obaseki, bcoz if na another person, he for don leave APC for long
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