{"id":83835,"date":"2021-07-19T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=83835"},"modified":"2021-07-19T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T06:30:42","slug":"nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria politicians\u00a0transforming to\u00a0 regional leaders &#8211; PGF DG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m109388\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director-General of the forum of governors in the All Progressives Congress, the Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has expressed worries over the degeneration of politics in Nigeria where politicians are now transforming themselves into regional leaders.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal  \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PGF\u00a0Director-General also noted that there is a\u00a0deep-seated hatred towards President Muhammadu Buhari, his government and other chieftains of the ruling party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nHe raised the observation at the weekend in a statement entitled, \u201cNigerian Politics and Question of National Unity,\u201d which he personally signed and made available to newsmen in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman further noted that the disconnect between those holding elective offices in the ruling party and the ordinary Nigerians has instigated hostility towards those holding elective offices.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cEndless vicious circle of agitations to resolve problems of marginalisation, injustice and unfairness has created an atmosphere of deep-seated frustrations by most Nigerians from all sections. It is also responsible for the anger against political leaders and political establishments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, public commentaries are antagonistic against elected leaders and the ruling party \u2013 President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC). Arguably, the belief is that President Buhari and the APC are the problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who is associated with them is condemned and projected to be part of the problem. In the same way, every analysis of challenges facing the country, which attempt to highlight any progress being made on account of initiatives by the APC administration led by President Buhari is dismissed and condemned. Some critiques have argued that the APC and President Buhari also used the same approach to defeat the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (PDP) and former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, which is debatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that the point is stressed that politics is about choices and every citizen should have the inalienable right to make his\/her political decisions. Part of what civilisation require is to respect the choices made by every Nigerian even if we disagree. Inability to respect one another and the choices we all make only stabilise the nation in this season of ethnic contempt, tension and endless conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn all the public outcry against the APC and President Buhari, for instance, even when opposition makes valid recommendations to resolve the challenges of national unity, they are not presented with the aim of winning the minds of elected leaders, and to that extent, therefore, get them to consider adopting and implementing the recommendations. In the same way, when elected representatives initiate actions to resolve challenges facing the country, there is hardly effort to win the support of citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the Director-General of the PGF called for consensus among the power elite to mitigate the growing mutual ethnic distrust among the federating geo-political zones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a nation, both citizens and political leaders need to come to terms with the reality that we all need each other to be able to build a nation that guarantees a good livelihood for citizens from all sections of the country. Nigeria can fulfil its destiny as Africa and world power with leadership that is a rallying point for good governance based on fair representation, justice and equity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is debatable if any of the constituent parts and the respective ethnic groups \u2013 Igbos, Yorubas, Hausa-Fulanis, Tivs, Efik, Igbibios, Urogbos, or any other individual ethnic group can attain greatness and satisfactorily fulfil the aspirations of its members. Democratic governance offers Nigeria the rare opportunity to reorient the politics of the country to develop the framework for continuous engagements, negotiations and agreements.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cFor this to happen, Nigerian politics must produce political leaders who are able to embrace all parts of the country as their constituency and engage political leaders from the regions based on capacity to support them to provide new leadership to their people that are able to win support for political agreements, which may not be simply about cheap access to elective and appointive positions by the regions.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director-General of the forum of governors in the All Progressives Congress, the Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has expressed worries over the degeneration of politics in Nigeria where politicians are&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria politicians\u00a0transforming to\u00a0 regional leaders - PGF DG - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria politicians\u00a0transforming to\u00a0 regional leaders - PGF DG - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Director-General of the forum of governors in the All Progressives Congress, the Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has expressed worries over the degeneration of politics in Nigeria where politicians are&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-19T06:30:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/images694.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"739\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/nigeria-politicians-transforming-to-regional-leaders-pgf-dg\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria politicians\u00a0transforming to\u00a0 regional leaders &#8211; 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