‘Hope Uzodinma, others didn’t want Tinubu to become President’

Salihu Lukman, the former national vice chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has raised concerns over recent appointments within the party’s ranks and the government. In a detailed statement issued in Abuja titled ‘Agonising Experience of Being APC Member; Message to APC leaders’, Lukman claims that certain party leaders who did not support President Bola Tinubu’s presidential bid are now being positioned in influential government roles.

He specifically pointed out Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, alleging that Uzodinma backed the push to nominate former Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, as the APC’s consensus presidential candidate. Despite such actions, Uzodinma was later appointed as the Chairman of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) under Tinubu’s administration.InformationGuideNigeria

Lukman expressed his grievances regarding the situation, highlighting the irony that individuals who previously stood against Tinubu’s presidential aspirations are now holding appointments under the Federal Government. This situation underscores a disconcerting dynamic within the APC, reflecting the complexities of party politics and alignment within the current administration.

He said: “When, for instance, party leaders who were boisterously opposed to the Presidential ambition of President Tinubu are today appointees in the federal government, and in the case of Governors such as Sen. Hope Uzodinma, who financed the attempt to manipulate the emergence of Sen. Ahmed Lawan as the consensus Presidential candidate of APC, emerging as the Chairman of Progressive Governors beat the imagination of every founding leader of APC, and in every respect heartbreaking.JAMB Portal

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“Pushing for the entrenchment of party supremacy, the former APC zonal leader strongly advised the ruling party to avoid becoming a replica of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

“APC emerged in 2013 with the historical mission of changing Nigerian politics such that our parties are internally democratic. Incontestably, both former President Buhari and current President Tinubu gave us the needed leadership to inspire Nigerians into believing and committing their votes to the APC.”JAMB Result

He warned that the APC should not derail from the promised goals and objectives of reforming the country’s democratic culture and values which endeared Nigerians to the party at its inception 10 years ago.

Lukman, however, observed that “Instead of reforming the APC to return it to its founding vision, we are consolidating and emerging as a malfunctioned and despotic party organization, which is increasingly becoming a replica of the PDP by every passing day.”

He added: “We can deceive ourselves to imagine that we can continue to succeed in emerging victorious in elections and successful leaders surround themselves with sycophants who only tell them what they want to hear, it will not change the reality of betrayal and it will not protect leaders.NYSC Portal

“As loyal party members, we will continue to campaign for the reform of APC and party politics generally in the country.”

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