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Salihu Lukman: APC and PDP Are Indistinguishable
Former APC National Vice Chairman Salihu Lukman has stated that there is no difference between the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
In an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, monitored by DAILY POST, Lukman claimed the APC is now becoming worse than the PDP it aimed to replace.
According to Lukman, the PDP had become a one-man show where internal democracy was abandoned, and candidates were imposed on the electorate. This situation prompted the formation of the APC through the merger of opposition parties to address these issues.
“We were clear on the kind of party APC should be. We saw the weaknesses of the PDP, apart from the imposition of candidates. Elected candidates were not accountable to the party or anybody, and we thought building the APC would depart from that. That was where the slogan ‘change’ came from,” Lukman said.
He added that the initial vision for the APC was to be a social democratic party prioritizing health, education, and social services, but the party has deviated from these principles.
Lukman attributed some of the party’s problems to Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, describing the former president as an emperor and the sole electoral asset of the party.
“We were hoping with Asiwaju (President Bola Ahmed Tinubu), things would start changing,” he said, lamenting that instead, the situation has worsened.
“We are having a party where some of its organs have not been convened since its formation. We are having a party in which for one year no meeting has taken place, and that party is controlling the government,” Lukman concluded.
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