Salihu Lukman, director-general of the Progressive Governors
Forum, says the All Progressives Congress (APC) is collapsing with no leader in
charge.
The APC has been embroiled in a leadership crisis following
the appeal court judgment upholding the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as
national chairman of the party.
While the party announced Abiola Ajimobi, former Oyo
governor, as acting chairman, Victor Giadom, APC deputy national secretary,
declared himself as national chairman on Wednesday.
But members of the national working committee (NWC) loyal to
Ajimobi nominated Hilliard Eta, APC vice-chairman south-south, to act in the
place of the former Oyo governor who is “unavoidably absent”.
In a statement on Thursday, Lukman said a national executive
committee (NEC) meeting should be called over the party’s leadership crisis.
The director-general said the party needs an “organ
transplant” by replacing members of the NWC who constitute a problem to the
party.
“It is very clear we need an organ transplant by way of
replacing the members of the current NWC who constitute the problem. That the
All Progressives Congress (APC) is having a leadership crisis is no longer
news,” he said.
“What is news now is that the party is collapsing with no
leader in charge.
“Following the appeal court ruling sustaining the suspension
of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the party, late on
Monday, June 16, 2020, members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the
party started making disparate claims as to who is the acting national
chairman.
“It is as if the party doesn’t have a constitution or those
who operate the constitution are either ignorant of its provisions or have
decided to set aside the constitution and just embark on a free for all fight.
Yet, APC is the ruling party in Nigeria.”
Lukman said the party could not have people like President
Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos, and still be in a
crisis.
“How can a party so blessed with experienced and very
skillful leaders such as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief
Ogbonnaya Onu, Chief Tony Momoh, etc. be incapable of resolving the problem of
leadership vacancy,” he said.
“The combined moral authority of President Buhari and
Asiwaju Tinubu should have involuntarily moderated the conduct of other leaders
of the party, especially members of the NWC.
“Does the current APC leadership crisis therefore suggest
declining moral authority of our two leaders? It is very easy to reach
conclusions.”
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