A former National Vice Chairman (Northwest) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, says the party is damaged.
According to Lukman, the APC is currently worse than the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He placed the blame for the damage to the APC at the feet of its past leaders, accusing them of betraying the trust the people had placed in them.
Naijaonpoint reports Lukman made the allegation during a Channels Television interview on Friday.
“In APC, we invested every trust in the leaders and at the end of the day, leaders betrayed that trust, and that is why APC is damaged today, whereby it is worse than the PDP,” he said.
ADC Will Be Different
Lukman, who recently defected to the coalition-led African Democratic Congress (ADC), however, said the coalition would handle things differently.
He submitted that the ADC has learnt from the mistakes of the APC and if the party produces Nigeria’s next president in 2027, the leaders would ensure elected officials remain accountable.
He vowed that those elected on the ADC platform would be guided to deliver on their campaign promises to the people.
“The ADC as a coalition, I see it as a platform for struggle. We have to engage our leaders. The mistake many of us make is to imagine that leaders are rational and, left on their own, they will do the right thing.
“Our objectives of forming the coalition is to organise it in such a way that if we produce the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and governance, all those people will be accountable to the party and the party will properly direct them to deliver services based on the electoral promises as provided in the manifesto of the party,” he said.
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