Director-General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to immediately come up with timetable for party congress.
Lukman also urged Governor Mala Mai Buni led caretaker committee to banish the thought of tenure elongation.
He also described as “needless” the extension of the ongoing membership registration, revalidation and update register exercise.
Lukman in a statement titled: “APC’s litmus tests” decried some of the challenges in the party which led to the dissolution of the former National Working Committee (NWC) led by Comrade Adams Oshiomole were yet to be addressed by the caretaker committee.
Maintaining that democratic principles require that initiatives being implemented by the Caretaker Committee are based on decisions taken by competent organs as provided in the constitution of the party, Lukman lamented that the party fell short of these principles.
He further alleged most decisions taken so far “by the Caretaker Committee were done by the Chairman, His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni and the Secretary, Sen. Akpan Udoedehe.”
According to him: “Under no circumstances should there be any contemplation of extending the tenure of the Caretaker Committee.
“In order to ensure that no extension is being considered, Committees for Congresses and National Convention should be established without any further delay.
“Similarly, the dates for Congresses and National Convention should be decided.”
