Ganduje to Lukman: You’re rudderless, mischievous politician

National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has described a former national vice chairman (North West), Salihu Mohammed Lukman, as a rudderless and mischievous politician. 

Ganduje’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Enlightenment, Chief Oliver Okpala, in a statement on Monday said Lukman had in a recent newspaper interview alleged that Ganduje was behaving like the former national chairman of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, who resigned last year.

He described Lukman as a “loosed political cannon who has been rudderless” in his public utterances and conduct over the years.

The statement reads, “For him to make such claims about Ganduje means that he is indeed mischievous. He is trying to give a wrong narrative about the political superiority and effective leadership which Dr Ganduje has been providing for the party.

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“We know Lukman’s cantankerous antecedents and we are not surprised by this incredulous outburst. A party official who has fought every party leadership even the one he served alongside is not a person who should be taken seriously.

“Lukman should know that the APC ship is sailing smoothly and every member of the various organs are being carried along. How does Lukman know that Ganduje’s leadership is not holding relevant meetings? Must every meeting be splashed on newspapers or social media?

“Ganduje is not an infantile attention seeker like Lukman who suffers character deficit. Ganduje is a calculative, strategic and composed leader who holds meetings when necessary, not just for meetings sake and when such meetings hold he does not rush to the media except it is of utmost importance.”