Replacing Adamu with Ganduje Politically Suicidal – APC Vice Chair
POLITICS DIGEST- National Vice Chairman, North West, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Moh. Lukman has described as grossly insensitive and politically suicidal, attempts by some party stakeholders to install the immediate-past Governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje as National Chairman of the party.
Noting that the move would distort the zoning formula of the party which zoned the office to the North Central and which led to scheming out the North Central from the leadership positions in the 10th National Assembly, Lukman in a statement on Thursday said the move would amount to taking members for granted.
According to him, following the resignation of Senators Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore as National Chairman and National Secretary respectively, there have been all manner of speculations as to which way forward for the party.
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He said, understandably, most of the speculations, if not all, are driven by interests to control the affairs of the party.
“Regrettably, however, many of the speculations do not share the commitment to either restore constitutional order in the party or return the party to its founding vision of returning to the path of progressive politics. In fact, if anything, some of the speculations, if true, will reduce to nonsense the decision to have a change of leadership, which means that no lessons have been learnt from all the circumstances of the last few years since the emergence of APC as a political party”, he stated.
He said so far, only the President and Governors blocs are active in the negotiations to produce and engage leaders of APC.
“Already, part of the speculations emerging from the Governor’s bloc is that Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is being considered to succeed Senator Abdullahi Adamu. If this is true, it only suggests insensitivity and taking members of the party for granted. This is without prejudice to the person of Dr. Ganduje.
