Immediate past National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman has challenged the political class to stop bemoaning the deleterious state of the economy, and the scary security challenge and organise themselves ahead of next general elections to unseat the ruling party. Lukman raised the need for an alternative, credible political party in a statement, “Failure of APC,” issued to journalists in Abuja at the weekend. The former member of the APC National Working Committee who recalled with disappointment that the APC National Secretariat was subordinated to the Presidency in the eight years of Buhari administration also noted with disaffection the disconnect between the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration and the national leadership of the ruling party.
Insisting on the urgency of a formidable party to unseat the present administration, Lukman maintained that both Buhari and Tinubu used the APC to win elections only to ignore its blueprint sold to the electorate. “The survival and further development of Nigerian democracy must not be allowed to be limited to the discretion of individual leaders, no matter how powerful they are. Patriotic Nigerians and democrats must resume the business of national mobilisation to produce an alternative democratic platform to APC and all the charades of registered political parties.
We must summon the courage and believe in the power of possibility. “Just like we succeeded in pushing the military back to the barracks.