A former National Vice Chairman (North-west) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman has said that the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) was able to inflict damage on APC and its national chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje because virtually all party leaders in Kano relocated to Abuja since he assumed office.
TheHintsNews reports that the Ward executive of the Ganduje ward recently suspended the national chairman of APC before his expulsion was eventually thwarted by the court.
Also, while addressing supporters on if the party on Monday in Abuja, Ganduje said the leadership of NNPP and its chieftains were afraid, having been defeated in the last general election and already foreseeing another defeat, embarked on the propaganda against the leadership of the APC.
However, Lukman in a statement issued Tuesday titled “Perils of Bad APC Leadership”, called for the reorganisation of all the leadership of the party from Ward to Local Governments, to States and National level.
The party Chieftain said President Bola Tinubu was complicit in marginalising the people of North Central from the political leadership of the country.
Lukman also pointed out that the problems of discretionary decisions, especially with respect to conduct of party primary are potential time bombs, which could further undermine the electoral viability of the APC.
He decried that the National Working Committee (NWC) continued to usurp the powers of all organs of the party, adding that discretionary decisions by the National Chairman has worsened.
Lukman stated: “Beyond all that is also the fact that once Dr. Ganduje emerged as the National Chairman of APC, virtually all the APC leaders in Kano State relocated to Abuja.
“In fact, part of why Kano State Government was able inflict the kind of huge political damage on Dr. Ganduje is because of the absence of virtually all APC leaders in Kano.
“The reality is that since the emergence of Dr. Ganduje as National Chairman, for about nine months, he did not visit Kano State more than twice.
“With such reality, and operating as an opposition party, it begs the question about whether he is at all interested in getting APC to win back Kano State.
“If President Asiwaju Tinubu with all his busy schedules could find time to go back to Lagos State on more than five occasions, it is certainly scandalous that Dr. Ganduje will use his position as the APC National Chairman as an excuse for political truancy. Being a political truant could only produce electoral failure back in his home state.”
“Rebuilding the APC should be about restoring constitutional order in the party. Given the fact that the current members of NWC are in their third year now and have so far appear to be comfortable with running affairs of the party without reference to APC Constitution, the question of their political and administrative competence to manage the APC needs to be reviewed.”