In the build-up to the much anticipated national convention of the governing All Progressive Congress (APC),\u00a0 Director General of the Progressive Governors\u2019 Forum (PGF), Salihu Moh Lukman, has tasked party members to ensure that leaders so elected, are made to respond to the realities facing the the nation.<\/p>\n
While also charging Nigerians to ensure that they take their share of responsibilities appropriately, Lukman sited\u00a0President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s leadership style as a source of inspiration and encouragement worthy of emulation by all APC leaders.<\/p>\n
\nHe made this assertions\u00a0 in a statement ahead of the launch of his new book, APC and Campaign for New Nigeria, explaining that it is part of the ongoing advocacy to support APC leaders with perspectives that highlight all the manifest challenges.<\/p>\n
The PGF DG further noted in the statement he released in Abuja on Monday that issues in the publication attempt to provide contextual analysis of challenges of insecurity, national unity, party building and policy engagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cAPC and Campaign for New Nigeria is part of the ongoing advocacy to support APC leaders with perspectives which highlight all the manifest challenges and what is required for the party to return to its founding vision of providing all the needed political leadership to change the country.<\/p>\n
” Issues in the publication attempt to provide contextual analysis of challenges of insecurity, national unity, party building and policy engagement. Since the platform of engagement is APC, the advocacy is primarily to influence the development of APC as a political party.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor APC to achieve the goal of producing a new Nigeria, it must be a party with a leadership that is united, disciplined, and respectful. Re-organising the structures of APC should make the party functionally active in facilitating negotiations among leaders at all levels and all agreements reached must be respected by all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the process of negotiating and implementing agreements reached, which should be respected by all that can produce a New Nigeria!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new Nigeria being envisioned therefore should be a liberal political environment, which should promote critical and selfless criticisms. In all of this, President Buhari\u2019s leadership style remains a source of inspiration, which encourage engagement with all APC leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake away President Buhari\u2019s political leadership, the atmosphere in APC may be different and many of the perspectives being produced from within the party, may not have found expression or may have risked being condemned and individuals promoting them may have been restrained,\u201d Salihu noted in the statement.<\/p>\n
Explaining further, he wrote; \u201cCampaigning for New Nigeria cannot be achieved by only lamenting about any failing or rationalising why we have what exist today. Members of APC should be able to push the leaders of the party to respond to the reality facing the country and ensure that Nigerians appropriately take responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians must engage the issues with all the confidence that political leaders, especially President Buhari will favourably consider these proposals and strengthen the capacity of the party and its governments to mobilise Nigerians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
While giving more information about the new book, Salihu said: \u201cThe publication, APC and Campaign for New Nigeria will be coming out very soon. It is the fourth publication in the last two years aimed at critically evaluating political and governance initiatives in Nigeria under the APC-led government of President Buhari.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike previous three publications \u2013 Power of Possibility & Politics of Change in Nigeria, APC and Progressive Politics in Nigeria, APC\u2019s Litmus Tests: Nigerian Democracy and Politics of Change \u2013 APC and Campaign for Nigeria is about engaging APC leaders to influence their political decisions in terms of the development of APC as a political party.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Foreword by Prof. Abiodun Alao, Professor of African Studies at King\u2019s College, London and Programme Director, African Leadership Centre, chapters in the publication are series of interventions between July and November 2021. \u201cMost of the interventions are responses to contemporary challenges, which often become the basis of excessive politicisation by opposition political parties and their supporters. Often, issues are presented very negatively by many Nigerians, which tend to both misrepresent the facts and misdirect the public. All the chapters speak to the need to create a new Nigeria, which is about peaceful co-existence, secure the country, tolerance and responsive politics, government and leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce ready, the publication will be circulated both internally in APC and among all leaders at the national level and interested Nigerians. The publication will be used to further engage political leaders in the country, especially in terms of setting the right political agenda for 2023 campaigns and thereafter. The campaign for New Nigeria is about the future of the country and the guarantee of a good life for all Nigerian citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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