The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman,
North-west, Salihu Lukman has called for an emergency national convention where
a new national leadership of the party would be elected.
Lukman in a statement issued Friday also called for the
resignation of the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and
National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore.
He stressed that with a National Chairman who is also a
Muslim, it would be important that every necessary step is taken to inject a
change of leadership in the party so that a new National Chairman who is a
Christian can take over.
Lukman explained that part of the advantage of this is that
the National Chairman could be retained in North-Central.
He said the current National Chairman has done an excellent
job to manage a successful campaign to win the 2023 election with all the
attendant challenges, there should be no difficulty in convincing Adamu to
resign as National Chairman to create an opportunity for a new National
Chairman of APC to emerge who is a Christian.
Lukman noted: “For that to happen, it may require an
Emergency National Convention because if the hierarchy of the current
leadership is to be followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar
Kyari who is a Muslim from the North-East.”
He pointed out that apart from changing the National
Chairman, there was the need to also recognise the case of the National
Secretary of the party, saying he has become a source of stronger dispute in
Osun State.
The party Chieftain said rather than serving as a unifying
factor for the party leadership in Osun State, Omisore is more of a divisive factor,
which might have been responsible for why APC lost the 2022 governorship
election to a political mediocre whose only qualification in politics may
appear to be a comic dancing skill.
Lukman said to save Osun State and bring it back to its old
standard of national political reckoning, Omisore would need to resign as
National Secretary of APC, and a new unifying National Secretary elected.
He pointed out that beyond Omisore, any member of the
National Working Committee of the party who is not a unifying leader in his/her
state should be changed.
“For that to happen may require an Emergency National
Convention because if the hierarchy of the current leadership is to be
followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar Kyari who is a
Muslim from North-East,” Lukman stated.
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