A former vice chairman, of the All Progressives Congress (North-West), Salihu Lukman, has said that President Bola Tinubu is becoming more inaccessible to APC leaders and stakeholders.
Lukman said shutting out loyalists and those who can draw his attention to priority decisions and perceived mistakes would do the president no good.
The APC chieftain gave the warning in a statement he issued in Abuja on Monday titled ‘Resolving APC’s Progressive Retrogression.’
The statement reads in part: “First, the biggest problem many APC leaders have with President Tinubu’s government is inaccessibility. Perhaps, partly because of the challenge of managing pressure from people seeking political appointments in government, the assumption is that everybody seeking to meet the President or people around him will be lobbying for an appointment. Although that could be true in many cases, such a reality shouldn’t produce an indiscriminate barricade.
“Recognising that problems of accessibility are common to all leaders, being committed to building a progressive party, which should idly be mass-based and capable of winning public support requires leaders to be accessible. As loyal members of the APC, and above all, as patriotic Nigerians, we are all here to make the President and Nigerian governments at all levels succeed. Being the father of the nation and the leader of the APC, we will not antagonise him. We acknowledge the courage of the President to make all the necessary decisions.
“But as he enjoined members of his cabinet to debate the wrong decisions of their supervisors, we hope that he will have the large heart to listen to us when we draw his attention to priority decisions he should be taking, not even mistakes, or perceived mistakes coming from his decisions as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Our objective of drawing his attention to prioritise decisions regarding certain issues is to help him to ‘succeed by all means necessary.”
