APC bigwigs must unite to prove opposition wrong – PGF DG

The Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Mohammed Lukman has urged power brokers in the ruling All Progressives Congress (ÀPC) to unite ahead of the forthcoming national convention to prove to critics and opposition that the party is not a failed one.

A former interim national chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande and a national leader of the party, Ahmed Bola Tinubu had a few days ago, expressed reservations about the party’s on-going membership registration and revalidation exercise.

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But Lukman in a statement said all party leaders should work together, strengthen the party and protect its achievements at all levels of governance.

“Part of what the caretaker committee should proactively ensure is to sustain the unity of our leaders beyond the membership registration/revalidation exercise.

“The understanding is that process of leadership reformation at all levels will follow through Congresses and national convention. If this is the case, what is the schedule for all the congresses and vonvention?

“How is it going to be conducted? How are leaders of the party involved in all these processes? To what extent can leaders at all levels have confidence in the process? Will there be a meeting of NEC of the party to debate and approve proposals around all these processes?

“At a time, when some Nigerians believe that the best way to gain recognition is to associate APC with failure, our leaders need to be united to protect the party and the achievements of APC governments at all levels.

“How the caretaker committee is able to respond to all of these would help assuage all the frayed nerves in the party and put to shame most of the doomsday analysis around the party,” he said.