{"id":95625,"date":"2022-06-01T18:06:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95625"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:06:49","slug":"choosing-your-successor-risky-costly-for-nigerias-democracy-apc-nwc-member-tells-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/choosing-your-successor-risky-costly-for-nigerias-democracy-apc-nwc-member-tells-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing your successor risky, costly for Nigeria\u2019s democracy, APC NWC member tells Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A member of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to be conscious of his legacies and avoid falling into the temptation of unilaterally picking his successor.<\/p>\n<p>National Vice Chairman, North-West, in the Senator Abdullahi Adamu-led NWC, Salihu Lukman, gave the charge in an open letter to the President Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that it would be \u201cdemocratically risky and very costly\u201d to allow the President do so, Lukman urged President Buhari not to copy what he described as the anti-democratic credentials of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who foisted his successor, late President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua on his Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and went on to rig the general election to ensure his emergence as President.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman, in the piece titled \u201cSuccession and 2023 APC Presidential Candidate: Open Letter to President Muhammadu Buhari,\u201d was reacting to the outcome of Tuesday\u2019s meeting between President Buhari and APC governors.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the consultative meeting with Progressive Governors on Tuesday, the President had spoken of the internal policies of the APC which allowed \u2018first term governors who have served credibly well \u2026to stand for re-election\u2019 and \u2018second term governors \u2026 accorded the privilege of promoting successors that are capable of driving their visions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The President, therefore, solicited for \u2018reciprocity and support of Governors and other stakeholders in picking\u2019 his successor, \u2018who would fly the flag of our party for election into the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2023.&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nNoting that ordinarily, this should not be a problem as both party members and leaders will always trust the president\u2019s judgment, the APC official however noted that \u201cthe big worry is whether loyal party leaders and members should just reduce themselves to being ordinary observers when very sensitive issues with very high potential to diminish and damage Your Excellency\u2019s revered status in the country is being considered\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Director General of the Progressive Governors\u2019 Forum PGF noted that it is important therefore to caution APC to keep faith with basic tenets of democracy as its major campaign message to Nigerians for the 2023 elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThis was eloquently highlighted in Your Excellency\u2019s message to our Progressive Governors when you stated that \u2018the key to electoral successes is the ability to hold consultations and for members to put the nation above other interests.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe temptation for leaders to choose their successors is democratically risky and very costly. If in 2013\/2014, Your Excellency could submit yourself to internal democratic processes, it is important that your successor also follows the same process.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cIt may also be necessary to highlight that a major disadvantage with succession arrangement whereby Governors chose their successors is that it negatively affects relationship between the successor and the predecessor, which undermines capacity to influence actions or inactions of successors by their predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour Excellency, since the period of negotiating the merger that produce our party APC, I have been a proponent of ensuring that our party takes every step to preserve our leaders who could exercise moral authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that leaders who are highly respected on account of their standing in society should not hold elective or appointive positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" 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>A member of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari on the need to be conscious of his legacies and&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":95626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95625","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 - 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