SaharaReporters reports that the Progressives Youth Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress has required the instant elimination of Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, Dr Salihu Lukman, over alleged anti-party activities.

The APC youth group likewise gave governors under the party’s platform 72 hours to call a follower for Lukman.

The PYCAPC made this understood in a communique signed by its Coordinator, Prince Danelson Momoh, alongside 9 others on Friday.

According to the declaration, Lukman had actually revealed that he was a mole in the ruling party with a mission to weaken it and ultimately hand benefit to the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the 2023 basic elections.

The statement reads, “The Progressive Youth Council of the All Progressive Congress has been following developments within our party with kin interest in recent months and have identified the obstruction in the wheel of the development of the celebration.

“The Director-General of Progressive Governors’ Forum, Dr Salihu Lukman, is the issue we have actually recognized.

“We are distressed to state that Lukman is complicit in a number of anti-party activities that were targeted at weakening the APC from within for the benefit of the Peoples Democratic Party.

“We value that a couple of APC guvs, driven by excessive ambition are in pursuit of individual agenda in the upcoming basic elections however our expectation is that a director-general that deserves his workplace would dominate on such individuals to line up with the celebration’s interest.

“Consequently, by virtue of the powers vested in the Progressives Youth Council of the APC, Dr Lukman is thus declared personality non grata and his position stated vacant.

“We offer the Progressive Governors Forum 72 hours from now to fill the vacant position. If a brand-new director-general of the Progressive Governors’ Forum has actually not been named by 12:00 pm o January 17, 2022, the Progresive Youth Council will do the needful by revealing a replacement for the uninhabited position. We will then take all the essential steps to offer result to our statement.

“Finally, we prompt the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee to continue discharging its duty to the celebration and not be distracted by anybody.”

Ahead of the 2023 basic elections, the APC had been enmeshed in different crisis with worries rising that this could jeorpadise the chances of the celebration to maintain power at the centre next year.

Last week, some aggrieved members of the APC dragged the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee before a Federal High Court in Abuja over strategies to hold a national convention in February.

The candidates prayed the court to limit the committee from proceeding with the convention because state congresses were yet to be finished in all 36 states of the federation.

In a bid to put out the raging fire within the celebration, state guvs chosen on the platform of the APC last weekend held an emergency situation conference in Abuja to discuss issues surrounding the national convention and complaints of members calling for its postponement.

Anxious that the internal wranglings within the APC could cause bigger issues, President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday said that the party risked losing control of power at the national level in Nigeria if it failed to deal with all crisis within its fold.

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