APC risks collapse – Former Vice Chair

The immediate past National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Lukman, who resigned on Wednesday in protest against the recent turn of events in the party, said yesterday that the imposition of the former governor of Kano State, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, as national chairman would lead the party to damnation.

Although Lukman resigned on Wednesday, his resignation has not been accepted by his colleagues in the National Working Committee, NWC.

“Perhaps, it is important to clarify that this is not in any way questioning the authority of President Bola Tinubu as the moral leader of the party. Being the moral leader of the party doesn’t give him the power of exercising statutory functions of organs of the party or unilaterally changing provisions of the party’s constitution.

”It will amount to setting President Tinubu for failure in the worse possible way to proceed to encourage him to act in a manner that is illegal and immoral.

”If the scheming to have Dr. Ganduje emerge as the next national chairman of APC succeeds with all the legal and moral questions, as a party, we would have set the stage for the destruction of our party and God forbids, we would have laid the foundation that will make President Tinubu and all our elected representatives unpopular,” he stated.

In an “explanatory note” sequel to his resignation, Lukman said he was tired of fighting for reforms in the APC. While he conceded that President Bola Tinubu remained the leader and moral compass of the party, Lukman, however, cautioned him against submitting to the temptation of becoming a champion of illegality and repression.

He said:  “Painful as it is, I want to appeal to President Bola Tinubu and all our leaders to resist the temptations that would protect our party and our leaders as champions of illegality and repression.”