{"id":90372,"date":"2022-01-04T19:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=90372"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:04:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:04:34","slug":"dont-leave-pdp-lukman-cautions-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/dont-leave-pdp-lukman-cautions-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t leave PDP, Lukman cautions Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Director-General of the Progressive Governors\u2019 Forum, PGF, Salihu Moh\u2019d Lukman, has cautioned Jonathan against leaving the PDP for the APC, saying such a move would diminish his political stature as an elder statesman.<\/div>\n
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Lukman said: \u201cPart of the reason high-profile membership recruitments by political parties in Nigeria attract a lot of debate, attention, and controversy, is that it hardly comes without any ambition to contest the election by those joining the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cPartly because President Buhari will be completing his 2nd term and therefore ineligible to contest, the question of who will emerge as the Presidential candidate of the APC for 2023 is quite open.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo of the governors who recently joined the APC from the PDP are speculated to have done so because of ambition for 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd since the 2019 Bayelsa State Governorship election, when APC leaders met former President Jonathan to lobby support for the APC candidate, Mr. David Lyon, there have speculations that President Jonathan will also be joining the APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, it is important that the issue of high-profile membership recruitment by APC is clarified beyond the narrow expectations of the electoral contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should the objective of recruiting high-profile members be reduced to the issue of contesting elections? Assuming someone like former President Jonathan agrees to join the APC and he fails to emerge as the Presidential Candidate of the party for 2023 election, what will happen to him?<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Nigerians, we must begin to take steps to protect our leaders. As APC members, we have campaigned against former President Jonathan in 2015. As President, former President Jonathan made every effort to block the emergence of APC in 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut those should not be the reference point. The reference point should be the historic decision of former President Jonathan to concede defeat in 2015 even before the final votes were counted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith that, former President Jonathan ranked himself as one of those who fought and defended Nigeria\u2019s democracy. On no account, therefore, should any political party be allowed to push former President Jonathan to diminish his stature, either as an aspirant or a candidate for any office.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing so will mean that we want him to gamble away all his legendary achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is sad enough that PDP leaders, being who they are, don\u2019t recognize and respect former President Jonathan\u2019s deserved political stature.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt, every speculation about the possibility of former President Jonathan joining the APC has to do with the reality of being unappreciated by PDP leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cNegotiating to bring him into APC should not be based on aspiring for any office. It must be recognized that former President Jonathan, and indeed every former President, is beyond holding any office in the land. Bringing former presidents to that level will amount to diminishing their political stature.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlready, President Buhari is doing excellently well by delegating some high-profile diplomatic responsibilities to former President Jonathan.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the failures of PDP is the inability to create responsibilities that can match the statures of former Presidents. Inability to create responsibilities for former Presidents is perhaps what accounts for the overbearing restlessness of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith President Buhari scheduled to end his tenure in 2023, less than two years away, negotiations to recruit former President Jonathan into APC must be used to settle the question of the roles of former Presidents within the APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAPC must not allow the situation to emerge whereby party leaders and members-only respect elected and appointed functionaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the lessons from the challenges created under the last National Working Committee led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had to do with the absence of Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it possible therefore to organize the APC Board of Trustees and get former Presidents to provide the needed moral leadership that can serve as a check to both party leaders and elected functionaries of the party?<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving former Presidents discharging persuasive moral responsibilities as leaders of Board of Trustees would strengthen the capacity of party leaders and members to influence decisions of elected functionaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust imagine two former serving Presidents of the standings of President Buhari and former President Jonathan working in harmony towards a common political goal. It will take a rascally elected functionary at whatever level to ignore their recommendations.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the other hand, the big risk is when they are unable to work in harmony. That will tear the party apart and may potentially destroy the party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is the need, therefore, to broaden consultations and agree on everything required to ensure that the framework of operations of the APC Board of Trustees guarantees that former serving Presidents can work in harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n

—-Vanguard News Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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