The immediate-past National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Lukman, has asserted that President Bola Tinubu and his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, made a mockery of democracy in the party’s last nine years of administration. Naija News reports that the APC chieftain, who hails from Kaduna state, made this known in a statement issued on Saturday. Lukman faulted Buhari and Tinubu for managing the country’s affairs without consulting the party leadership and structure.
He called for concerted efforts to establish a viable alternative platform to put the APC in “its rightful place and overcome the current extreme right-wing adventurously unplanned leadership of President Bola Tinubu”. He said, “No doubt, President Tinubu has challenged Nigerians to think outside the conventional political box. APC members and leaders, and indeed all patriotic Nigerians committed to the democratic development of the country, are being challenged daily to ask the question of the value of being associated with a political party if all that it does is only to field candidates for elections.
The way and manner both former President Buhari and President Tinubu have managed affairs of the country without consulting party leadership and structures in the last nine years made a mockery of democracy. “The survival and further development of Nigerian democracy must not be allowed to be limited to the discretion of individual leaders, no matter how po.