Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-west, Salihu Lukman has said the party’s National Chairman and Secretary, Abdullahi Adamu and Iyiola Omisore, are seeking to be emperors of APC.
Gatekeepers News reports that Lukman, while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday, said the “aspiration” of the two party leaders is not in line with the constitution of the APC.
This was in reaction to comments by Omisore who labelled him the “black sheep” of the ruling party.
Lukman has consistently criticised the way and manner Adamu and Omisore have led the party’s national working committee (NWC).
He criticised both men for not leading the APC based on the provisions of the party’s constitution.
Lukman said, “I can say, assuming we want to mutate to become a conservative party even with that kind of aspiration, I don’t think Abdullahi Adamu and Omisore are committed to lead the party based on the provision of its constitution.
“Abdullahi Adamu says that he doesn’t know me from anywhere, he has never read about me. That is his own cup of tea. I have been around and I have been active in terms of the advocacy for the merger.
“No leader of the party would say he has not come across my contributions as controversial as they may appear and I don’t shy away from that. Even the mere fact of our emergence as leaders of the party, I mean I want to be modest that I participated in the campaign to remove Adams Oshiomhole and the caretaker committee.
“Our vision was that we would produce a leadership under Abdullahi Adamu that would take us back to our founding vision of a party that would encourage internal debate. What I see now is a party that doesn’t want any debate.
“Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Omisore want to behave like emperors and sincerely speaking that departs from the vision of APC being a progressive party.”
He further alleged that President Bola Tinubu did not receive any funds from the party during the campaigns.
Lukman said, “He (Tinubu) didn’t get a dime from the party. I am making this public. Let them challenge me and contradict me.”
