Former National vice chairman (Northwest) of All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman, has expressed concern that ruling party is gradually moving away from its founding ideals of progressivism toward monarchy system.
Speaking on Channels Television program on Friday, Mr. Lukman lamented that internal contests had been abandoned in favour of automatic adoptions.
He also expressed disappointment in the party’s current direction, claiming it had drifted from its founding ideals.
Mr. Lukman said: “The APC has moved from a party envisioned to be progressive to almost a monarchy.
“As it is now, the APC mantra is that there will be no internal contest in 2027, the President is adopted. All their governors are adopted. Legislators are also adopted.”
Speaking further, the former APC’s chieftain said that discussions had been ongoing for over a year to establish a viable platform capable of challenging the current political status quo.
He said, “There is nothing stopping the coalition from coming to fruition.
“Even when the governors claimed, for instance, they were not part of the coalition, we responded clearly. Some of them, as you have seen, either have already moved to the APC or are on their way to move to the APC.”
So, clearly, they are doing the bidding of the APC and the ‘Asiwaju’ government. So, we are not bothered about that. We have the PDP bloc in the coalition and nothing is stopping the coalition.
“We are going through a painstaking process and very soon, we are going to come out and clarify all the details, in terms of how we are going to contest the 2027 elections and the leaders of the coalition; all those will be known.”
