A former national vice chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called for the creation of a politically viable and truly popular democratically alternative platform that can put the APC “in its rightful place” and overcome what he called “extreme right-wing adventurously unplanned” leadership of President Bola Tinubu. Lukman in a statement titled: “Failure of APC”, issued in Abuja yesterday said this was possible just like democratic activists succeeded in pushing the military back to the barracks and the APC defeated the PDP in 2015. He said: “The beauty of being a democracy is the freedom it offers to engage in political contest.
Patriotic Nigerians must practically and loudly convey the right message to President Asiwaju Tinubu, the APC leadership an old Nigerian politicians that our democracy must be transformed beyond the current ugly state of ceremonial elections which end up producing leaders who continue to act like emperors and dictators who rule the country worse that military governments. According Lukman, Nigerians must be mobilised to rise above dishonest politicians who only manipulate their way to power and reduce the citizens to the status of conquered people. The former director general of the Progressives Governors’ Forum added that democracy would be worthless if the result is only to elect civilian overlords.
“That can only be checked if we produce a functional political party with committed leader.
