Party chieftain accuses Tinubu of blocking APC structure from functioning

…Warns APC risks losing out of power in 2027

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Moh Lukman, has accused President Bola Tinubu of blocking the structures of the ruling party from operating in line with the provisions of the party’s constitution.
He warned that the party is gradually moving into state of self-denial with APC government led by President Tinubu retaining the same behavioural attribute of demobilising party structures.
Lukman noted that living with entrenched ‘morbid desire for naked power’ will continue to reduce APC leaders and members to the status of ‘internally displaced politicians’ adding that problems of injustice, inequitable and unfair representation in both the party and government produced by the APC will continue.
The former National Vice Chairman North West warned that the situation portends danger of being thrown out of power in 2027 just like PDP experienced in 2015.
Lukman stressed that no matter how APC leaders, including President Tinubu, and members wish to delude themselves into believing anything to the contrary, the reality is that there is a limit to which Nigerians can tolerate and accommodate injustice, inequitable representation.
According to him; “Just like the situation before 2015 whereby Nigerians were confronted with a ruling party, PDP, which was in denial of the challenges facing Nigerian politics that entrenched ‘morbid desire for naked power’, APC is gradually moving into state of self-denial with APC government led by President Tinubu retaining the same behavioural attribute of demobilising APC structures and blocking them from operating in line with the provisions of the party constitution.
“This portend the danger of being thrown out of power in 2027 just like PDP experienced in 2015. APC leaders, including President Tinubu, and members may wish to delude themselves into believing anything to the contrary, the reality is that there is a limit to which Nigerians can continue to tolerate and accommodate injustice, inequitable representation, and unfairness on account of ‘morbid desire for naked power’ by leaders entrusted with governmental responsibilities.
“The fact of living with entrenched ‘morbid desire for naked power’ will continue to reduce APC leaders and members to the status of ‘internally displaced politicians’ and problems of injustice, inequitable and unfair representation in both the party and government produced by the APC will continue.
“Already, in less than six months since the inauguration of President Tinubu-led government, insensitive decisions have been take, which marginalised the North Central in both the leadership of the APC and the leadership of the National Assembly.
“Not even the emergence of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje as the national chairman of the APC, who is from Kano state, North-Central has elicited any rational consideration to renegotiate the leadership of the Senate for instance, whereby another person, Barau Jibrin, from the same Kano state is occupying the position of Deputy Senate President.
“Ideally, any claim to progressive politics would have compelled President Tinubu, Ganduje and all leaders of APC to recognise the ‘moral and spiritual’ burden requiring the need to reconstruct the leadership of the Senate to ‘ensure justice, equity and fair play for all’ by replacing Barau with a ranking Senator from North Central as Deputy Senate President,” he frowned in the statement he issued in Abuja on Monday.