Leadership crisis: APC chieftain quits NWC, urges Tinubu to do urgent rethink

Former National Vice Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), North West zone, Salihu Mohammed Lukman, has challenged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to do an urgent rethink and “retract from illegal acts” as such will do Nigeria no good

Lukman gave the counsel in his resignation letter dated July 26, 2023, expressing the hope that the President “will retract from acts that will be unjust and illegal, which is crucial to any claim of being democratic or progressive whether as politicians or as patriotic Nigerians.”

He said quitting the Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) was based on his conviction that the current atmosphere within the party completely deviates from the founding vision of forming a progressive party in the country for good governance and the overall benefits of all Nigerians.

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The immediate past National Vice Chairman ‘resignation letter stated thus; “I hereby kindly resign my position as National Vice Chairman, North-West of our great party, All Progressives Congress (APC). My resignation is with immediate effect, which becomes necessary given my conviction that the atmosphere in the party is completely at variance with the founding vision of forming a progressive party.”

“Rather than remaining in the leadership of the party and becoming a source of distraction for leaders and especially for the young government of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is better to excuse myself and take time off from politics.

“I will however retain my membership of the party in the hope that our leaders, especially President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will retract from acts that will be unjust and illegal, which is crucial to any claim of being democratic or progressive whether as politicians or as patriotic Nigerians.

“I wish to convey my sincere gratitude to our leaders in Kaduna, especially Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai for finding me worthy of nomination to serve at the highest level of the party’s leadership.”