Former All Progressives Congress (North-West) vice chairman Salihu Lukman acknowledged on Wednesday that there are more problems facing Nigerians and that if current trends continue, the party may lose power in 2027.
Prior to the public release of his new book, “APC and Transition Politics,” which is scheduled on Tuesday, December 19, Lukman addressed during a press conference in Abuja.
The APC leader declared, “I believe we have to be sincere.” Our democracy is not responsive enough right now. I worry that our leaders have grown accustomed to thinking they can get away with doing anything.
“Under a party that is supposed to be progressive, we need to convince our leaders that things are practically out of control at the rate we are moving.
“There will probably be uprisings, and if action is not taken by 2027, we will be removed from office and Nigeria will revert to its pre-1965 state.” We should, in my opinion, be accountable to President Asiwaju or our leader for telling him the whole truth.
Without reservation, I deduce that we haven’t made much progress thus far. In order to prevent our leaders from going back to their previous practices of living in denial just because we won the election, we really need to interact with them and be transparent with them.
It is a well-known fact that Nigerians encounter a greater number of difficulties. Their life is getting harder and harder. I keep stating that President Asiwaju’s candidature back then was quite fortunate for us. I doubt we could have thwarted the attempt to impose a candidate if we didn’t have someone with his calibre.
Lukman described his choice to leave from the National Working Committee of the party as difficult.
Although the APC leader described his decision to step down as a trying time in his life, he denied the idea that he was compelled to leave the system before Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, the party’s current national chairman, emerged.
He went on, “I must admit that it was an extremely tough decision for me to decide to resign from the NWC. It wasn’t like I was enjoying it. It was a really tough choice to make. After making the choice, I decided that I would find the opportunity to record our experiences of the hardship during the transition that resulted in the election of President Asiwaju Tinubu.
“Of course, I was aware that several of the party’s leaders, including President Asiwaju, were occupied with arguments when I rebelled against their authority. I didn’t overthrow President Asiwaju’s administration. As a person, all I could think was that we owed it to the president to always give him the truth. And that’s exactly what I did.
