Making Ganduje National Chairman Will Make Party Unpopular- Ex APC Vice Chairman

A former national vice chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has again cautioned President Bola Tinubu against the choice of Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of Kano, as the next national chairman of the party.

Lukman, in a statement on Thursday said making Ganduje the next APC chairman is akin to laying a foundation that would make the ruling party unpopular.

“Perhaps, it is important to clarify that this is not in any way questioning the authority of President Asiwaju Tinubu as the moral leader of the party,” the statement reads.

“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 Asiwaju Tinubu up 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 Asiwaju Tinubu and all our elected representatives unpopular.

“God in his infinite mercy will guide President Asiwaju Tinubu and all our leaders to return our great party APC to constitutional order and its founding vision.”