National Vice Chairman, North West, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called for an emergency national convention where a new national leadership of the party would be elected.
Lukman, in a statement issued, on Friday, also called for the resignation of the National Chairman of the Party, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu and National Secretary, Sen. Iyiola Omisore.
He stressed that with a National Chairman who is also a Muslim, it would be important that every necessary step was taken to inject a change of leadership in the Party so that a new National Chairman who is a Christian can take over.
Lukman explained that part of the advantages of this is that the National Chairman could be retained in North Central.
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He said the current National chairman has done an excellent job to manage a successful campaign to win the 2023 election with all the attendant challenges, and that there should be no difficulty in convincing Adamu to resign as National chairman to create an opportunity for a new National Chairman of APC to emerge who is a Christian.
Lukman’s words, “For that to happen, it may require an Emergency National Convention because if the hierarchy of the current leadership is to be followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar Kyari who is a Muslim from the North-East.”
He pointed out that apart from changing the National Chairman, there was the need to also recognise the case of the National Secretary of the Party, saying he has become a source of stronger dispute in Osun State.
The APC chieftain said rather than serving as a unifying factor for the party leadership in Osun State, Omisore was more of a divisive factor, which might have been responsible for why APC lost the 2022 governorship election to a political mediocre whose only qualification in politics may appear to be a comic dancing skill.
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Lukman said to save Osun State and bring it back to its old standard of national political reckoning, Omisore would need to resign as National Secretary of APC, and a new unifying National Secretary elected.
He pointed out that beyond Omisore, any member of the National Working Committee of the party who is not a unifying leader in his/her state should be changed.
“For that to happen may require an Emergency National Convention because if the hierarchy of the current leadership is to be followed, the successor to Sen. Adamu will be Sen. Abubakar Kyari who is a Muslim from North-East,” Lukman stated.