Former National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Salihu Lukman said there is no distinction between the ruling party and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Lukman expressed this in an interview on a television show.
The former APC National Vice Chairman said the APC was currently turning out to be more terrible than the PDP it came to supplant.
As indicated by him, the PDP was becoming a one-man show where internal democracy had been unloaded and candidates forced on the electorate, zeroing in on the fact that it was the reason they came up with the APC.
The APC chieftain said they concocted idea of the opposition parties merging to overcome the PDP and address some of the anomalies noticed at that time.
“We were clear on the kind of party APC should be. We saw the weaknesses of the PDP, apart from the imposition of candidates, part of the problem was that elected candidates were not accountable to the party or anybody and we thought building the APC would depart from that and that was where the slogan ‘change’ came from.
“When the debate about the manifesto of the party was going on, the conception was that the party was going to be social democratic with a priority on the issues of health, education and social services but the party has deviated,” he said.
Lukman communicated that apart of the party’s problems began from Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, adding that the President was like an emperor because he was the singular electoral asset of the party.
“We were hoping with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, things will start changing. Things rather got worse.
“We are having a party where some of its organs have not been convened since its formation. We are having a party in which for one year no meeting has taken place and that party is controlling the government,” he said.
