A former Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum PGF and immediate-past National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Moh. Lukman has ditched the party, saying it has outlived its usefulness and can no longer win elections without rigging. In a statement issued Wednesday in Kaduna titled; APC and The Future of Nigerian Democracy: Letter to Selected APC Leaders, Lukman said he found it extremely necessary to write to some few selected leaders of the party and try to clarify his position regarding the situation both in the party and in the country.
“First, it is a shared concern of most leaders of the party that the situation in the country has deteriorated in the last one year since the assumption of office of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Given a reality that the party structures have been demobilized and the government is implementing policies that have eroded value of incomes of citizens, conditions of living is rapidly getting worse by the day. With that, both the APC and the governments it controls are getting more and more unpopular. “It doesn’t require any investigation, at this rate, there is no way we can win election except through rigging. The popular saying in the country now is that President Tinubu is a one-term President. The hard truth is that the country will be lucky to get to 2027 without witnessing upheavals,” he stated.