Tag: Salihu Lukman

2023: ‘APC on the brink’, Says ex-PGF DG, Salihu

Aminu Imam

While the All Progressives Congress (APC) is leaving no stone unturned to maintain a grip on power beyond the 2023 general election, a chieftain of the party, Salihu Lukman said the ruling party is on ‘the brink’. Lukman, who recently resigned from the position of the Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF), an umbrella body for APC Governors made this assertion in an open letter to party’s leaders, made available to newsmen in Abuja. He said the party’s present predicament is propelled by selfish leaders apart from President Muhammadu…

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APC National Convention: Delay in fixing date a slap on the face of Nigerians – Salihu Lukman

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, (PGF) – the unbrella body of  Nigerian governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) –  Dr. Salihu Moh. Lukman has expressed strong reservations about the declaration by the national secretary of the APC Caretaker/ Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe, that his team has not concluded consultations ahead of the scheduled February 2022 Convention date. According to Lukman, it is now somehow difficult not to conclude that the CECPC is intentionally promoting speculations around…

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2023 Election: ‘Search For Presidential Candidate Outside Party Structure A Loss Of Confidence’ – PGF DG To APC leaders

Ishaku Yohanna

Godwin Amunde The Director-General of Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) – the umbrella body of Nigerian Governors elected on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) – Dr. Salihu Lukman, said moves by some leaders of the party to push negotiation for the emergence of a 2023 presidential candidate outside the party simply means loss of confidence on the structures of the party. Dr. Lukman described the move as a threat to internal unity among APC members and leaders and asked the party’s hierarchy to perish the thought. This is contained in a statement titled: “APC…

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APC ‘Not all-comers affair’ – PGF DG

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressive Governors Forum, (PGF) Dr. Salihu Lukman, said the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) must not be an all-comers affair, insisting that only those with progressive credentials should be admitted into its fold in the ongoing nationwide membership registration and revalidation exercise. He said the recent attempt to accept Chief Femi Fani-Kayode into the fold of the APC was a clear attempt by some partisans to manipulate the leadership of the ruling party into doing the wrong thing. It would be recalled…

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National Convention: Political bandits in APC desperate to install surrogate leaders – PGF DG

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum, (PGF) – the umbrella body of Nigerian governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) – Dr. Salihu Lukman, has described those opposed to the planned membership registration /revalidation exercise ahead of the National Convention of the party as political bandits who were desperate to install their surrogates as party leaders. In a statement titled, “Campaign against Membership Registration in APC: A Smokescreen for Surrogate Leadership,” issued in Abuja on Thursday, Lukman noted that there have…

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Edo Election: Call Mala Buni, APC Governors’ Forum DG to order – Party chieftain

Ishaku Yohanna

An APC chieftain in Edo, Bright Obarogie, has urged the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the party, Alh. Mai Mala Buni, to caution the APC Governors’ Forum Director-General (D-G), Dr Salihu Lukman. Obarogie who made the call in Benin on Friday while fielding questions from newsmen claimed that Lukman’s intent and purpose were not for the good of the party, saying he should be called to order, NAN reports. He was reacting to a statement credited to the D-G that the former National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole, had hijacked…

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APC Governors Forum’s DG seeks constitutional review to regulate conduct of party leaders

Ishaku Yohanna

By Godwin Amunde The Director-General of the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman said there is an urgent need for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider a review of its Constitution and develop proposed code of conduct for elected and appointed officials of the party to serve as bylaws in order to regulate their conduct. The DG of the PGF – a forum of governors on the platform of the ruling party – said to resolve the internal squabbles in the APC, the Governor Mai-Mala Buni Caretaker/Convention Working Committee…

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