Ministerial Nomination: President Tinubu Told What To Do

The former national vice chairman (North) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has told President Bola Tinubu how to ensure constitutional order in the county and the APC.

Naija News learned that Lukman, in a statement titled ” Road to Renewed Hope’ told the president to set performance targets for his newly appointed Ministers.

He said, “The first task before President  Tinubu is ensuring that ministerial targets are given and putting in place stronger supervisory and regulatory framework both within government and as a party to ensure delivery.’

The APC chieftain, who recently resigned, also demanded the immediate restoration of constitutional order in the APC.

He submitted that “Without any attempt to pre-empt the leadership of Dr. Ganduje, it is important to highlight that both Dr. Ganduje and President Asiwaju Tinubu cannot afford to fail. They must do everything possible to succeed in restoring constitutional order, returning APC to its founding vision of becoming a truly progressive party, based on which all elected and appointed representatives led by President Asiwaju Tinubu are both responsive to Nigeria’s challenges and representative of the wider interests of Nigerians.

“Being responsive to Nigerians is a function of knowledge and competence in managing affairs of government. Being a representative is about the ability to engage Nigerians and through those engagements being able to accommodate proposals and mainstream them into policies of government at all levels.

“Will this be the renewed hope Nigerians will expect? The coming days, weeks, and months ahead in the next four years will determine the colouration of President Asiwaju Tinubu’s government. As APC members and highly optimistic Nigerians, we must look forward with confidence that President Asiwaju Tinubu’s government will succeed in producing a progressive government supported by a re-organised APC that is truly progressive both in name and, indeed, which operates strictly based on its rules and all the laws regulating the conducts of political parties.

“What is it that can be done to ensure that truly President Asiwaju Tinubu’s led APC federal government succeed in emerging as a strongly responsive and representative government? For APC to emerge as a truly progressive party beyond bearing the name, President Asiwaju Tinubu’s government must be dynamic, action-oriented, and therefore competently able to improve on the quality of lives of Nigerians.

” What this requires at these early stages in the life of the administration is that the government must be able to set clearly defined targets, which must be achieved within the next four years. For instance, the government should define annual targets for all sectors, and each mandate ministry led by the newly confirmed ministers should be given the responsibility to achieve.

“Setting those targets and orienting all the newly elected and appointed APC representatives to apply themselves towards meeting them should not be taken for granted. In fact, once Ministers are sworn in, and no ministerial targets is given to them by the President, the seed of failure would have been planted .”

Lukman added that “Therefore, the first task before President Asiwaju Tinubu is ensuring that ministerial targets are given and putting in place stronger supervisory and regulatory framework both withinn government and as a party to ensure delivery.

“Again, both as party members and as Nigerians, we should support President Asiwaju Tinubu to succeed in bringing APC back to its founding vision of emerging as a truly progressive party capable of regulating the conducts of all elected and appointed APC representatives to be accountable to Nigerian citizens.

“Supporting President Asiwaju Tinubu should include being able to disagree with him when he takes any decision that is unjust to any section of the country. Both APC members and leaders, as well as Nigerians must be courageous in reminding President Asiwaju Tinubu that any claim of being progressive must guarantee social justice and equity, especially regarding the distribution of resources and opportunities in all manifestations.

“All the challenges that confronted APC and the federal government since 2019 borders on the strong perception by many sections of Nigerians of unfair and inequitable treatment. Contentious as it may appear, being a democracy and especially as a party envisioned to be progressive, we must demonstrate sensitiveness and responsiveness to these perceptions.

” We, therefore must appeal to President Asiwaju Tinubu to demonstrate a balanced commitment to providing truly progressive leadership to both the APC and the Nigerian nation as a whole.

“Providing progressive leadership to the APC will require President Asiwaju Tinubu to honestly resolve within himself whether under his leadership he wants to resolve the big political problem in the country whereby all our parties are reduced to only serving as an election platform.

” In 2012/2013, when under our old legacies parties, merger negotiations commenced, the expectation of many Nigerians was that the new party, APC, that emerged will depart from serving only as an election platform. Especially, with the adoption of the slogan “change”, the expectation was high in the country that APC would distinguish itself as a democratic party and produce a new model of party politics in the country.”