Salihu Lukman, immediate past vice-chair of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-west, says until political parties are
compelled to obey their rules, imposition of candidates and election rigging will continue.
In a statement on Tuesday, Lukman said electoral reforms
would not be complete without “stronger regulatory framework for the operations
of political parties in the country”.
“The reality is that, unless political parties are compelled
to respect their rules based on which organs of the parties are allowed to
function, problems of manipulation of political contests through imposition,
vote buying and rigging would continue,” he said.
“Political parties and many other political institutions
would continue to be destroyed.
“Any proposal for electoral reform in the country must
therefore include a stronger regulatory framework for the operations of
political parties in the country.”
The former director-general of the Progressive Governors
Forum (PGF) said Tinubu may only be interested in developing APC because of
what he stands to gain from it.
“If anything, what is very clear is that President Asiwaju
Tinubu’s commitment to the development of the APC as a political party may only
be guaranteed to the extent that the party will give him what he wants,” he
said.
“It is almost a return to the old PDP model of party
organisation under former President Olusegun Obasanjo with the requirement of
100% loyalty.
“Without any attempt to reopen old wounds, the requirement
for 100% loyalty was responsible for the graveyard silence internally within
the APC when Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje was proposed by President Asiwaju
Tinubu as National Chairman.
“After Dr. Ganduje’s successful emergence, there is also
graveyard silence even when Dr. Ganduje continued with the practice of freezing
structures of the party.
“No meetings of organs are taking place almost four months
after the emergence of Dr. Ganduje as the APC National Chairman.”
Lukman said leaders of APC must be humble and have listening
ears.
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