A former national vice chairman, (North-west) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has urged the founding leaders who championed the merger negotiation to produce the party in 2013 to call President Bola Tinubu to order for running a ‘closed government’.
Prominent among the leaders that led the APC merger negotiation in 2013 include: Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, Chief Rochas Okorocha and several others.
Lukman insisted that both as APC and Nigerians, the party leaders have a responsibility to make all the needed sacrifices to win Tinubu administration back and put it on the path of emerging as an inclusive government managed by an envisioned progressive party, APC.
The party’s chieftain who stated these in an Open Letter to APC Leaders, titled: “Burden of Leadership: Open Letter to APC Leaders said the party leaders and President Asiwaju Tinubu must resist the temptation of toying the path of self-destruction by continuing to operate as a closed government.
“Our leaders who led the merger negotiation to produce APC in 2013 owe it to Nigerians to call President Asiwaju Tinubu to order and get him to recover whatever is left of his democratic and progressive credentials. Both as APC and Nigerians, we all have a responsibility to make all the needed sacrifices to win President Asiwaju Tinubu administration back and put it on the path of emerging as an inclusive government managed by an envisioned progressive party, APC.
“APC leaders and President Asiwaju Tinubu must resist the temptation of toying the path of self-destruction by continuing to operate as a closed government. Achieving that will require readiness on the part of all APC leaders to make all the sacrifices to regain their respect back based on which they emerge as leaders and not bosses,” he said.