APC Chieftain berates Ganduje for repeating mistakes of his predecessors 

APC Chieftain berates Ganduje for repeating mistakes of his predecessors 

Joel Oladele, Abuja

The immediate past Vice National Chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has accused the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Umar Ganduje of repeating and even deepening the mistakes of past leadership of the party.

Lukman disclosed this in a letter leaked to journalists in Kaduna, dated April 2 and addressed to the National Chairman, Dr. Umar Abdullahi Ganduje.

In the five page letter titled ‘Moving APC Forward’, Lukman who has continued to oppose the emergence of Ganduje as National Chairman, lamented that despite his (Ganduje) eight months in office, the party has not introduced initiatives that will address cankerworms that have eaten deep into the party.

He further expressed worries that the party is still struggling to return to the vision of its founding fathers.

Lukman, a former Director-General of the Progressives Governor’s Forum (PGF) urged Ganduje to justify the condition repose on him by providing the leadership required to move the party forward. 

“Sincerely, having emerged as the National Chairman against every rational consideration, my candid expectation is that you will justify your emergence by ensuring that you, at the minimum, restore the constitutional order in the party. 

“Sadly, instead, what we have is business as usual. Eight months under your leadership, no NEC meeting has been held, which is supposed to be at least once every quarter. If the Constitution of the party had been respected, at least two NEC meetings would have been held. No meeting of the National Caucus has taken place. 

“The National Advisory Council is yet to be inaugurated. Because all the higher organs of the party have been frozen, the National Working Committee (NWC) is not honouring its obligation of presenting annual national budgets for the operations of the party in line with provisions Article 13.3(xiv) of the APC Constitution. Similarly, the obligation of presenting quarterly financial reports on income and expenditure of the party is not respected.

“Without annual national budgets, the party has failed to establish a clearly defined funding framework. Consequently, the NWC and its members, including yourself, are being reduced to beggars, at the mercy of elected representatives. This is a matter I drew your attention to the first time we met on September 4, 2023 after your emergence as the National Chairman of APC, for which I offered to present a proposal to you, which I did and submitted to you on October 24, 2023. A copy of the proposal titled APC Annual National Budget: Proposal Submitted to National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje is hereby attached.

“With all that has taken place since your emergence as the APC National Chairman, it is very easy to conclude that you have simply repeated and deepened all the mistakes of past APC leadership,” Lukman said.