Presidential Media Chat: Tinubu In Denial Of His Policies’ Failure – Dr Salihu Lukman

…Says, the president is not a listening leader

The immediate past National Vice Chairman (Northwest) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Salihu Lukman, has said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is in self denial of the fact that his administration’s so called economic reform policies have failed.

Lukman, who stated this while appraising the Presidential media chat as a guest on the Morning Show of Arise Television, specifically said that from the responses of President Tinunbu, the media chat merely projected him as “a leader who is not listening,”.

This was as he likened President Tinubu to an emperor, adding that emperors do not operate democracies, saying that is why the nation’s democracy is not working.

The former APC Chieftain further said that the presidential media chat did not change anything, but only succeeded in projecting Tinubu as a leader who is not listening.

He particularly wrote off the government of President Tinubu, emphasising that he does not see the magic that the government can carry out to produce needed results.

Lukman, an advocate of internal party democracy, said that he based his evaluation of the Tinubu-led government on the state of affairs in the ruling APC.

In the words of Lukman; “The party cannot offer the country what it does not have. APC is currently practically dead. There are no meetings at the level of the organs of the party. No platform to ventilate and aggregate opinions or ideas to enrich the governance system.

“The party members only come together when there is an election to select a candidate. Such candidates do not usually emerge from the internal arrangement of the party. Such candidates are not usually the most eligible and what the party does is to mobilise men and resources to rig them in,” he stressed.

Asked if he was not being so critical owing to the fact that he did not get a plum appointment from President Tinubu, the former APC Chieftain said that has been in favour of internal party democracy, adherence to party ideology and programmes, stressing that all these are currently lacking in the party.

Lukman assured that he and other like-minded persons are working hard to birth qualitative political parties that can produce the right leadership and therefore called on all progressive minds to do their bit by offering ideas, in whatever sector they find themselves in order to aid good governance for the country.

Ahead of 2027, Lukman announced that negotiations are currently taking place, adding that there is a groundswell of recognition by leaders of the opposition to come together and expressed optimism that before the middle of 2025 things will become clearer.

Lukman further said; “Even the choice of party is being negotiated and very soon things will come to the open. We have to build the confidence of Nigerians that things will have to be done differently”.