The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
The Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has called on the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to admit the numerous challenges confronting the party and it’s President Muhammadu Buhari led administration in fulfilling it’s campaign promises to Nigerians.
Lukman, stated that the call has become very necessary in view of the numerous inherited challenges that is confronting the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
He regretted that in Nigeria, citizens are more and more divided, amidst conflicts, violence and wars, which he noted is consuming human lives and properties in a scale that is very alarming.
The PGF DG, who stated in a statement he titled, “Nigeria’s Challenges and Need for Reorientation” argued that though there is no doubt that the ruling party inherited a battered system from the now opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2015, the party may not had fared well in confronting the challenges it met on ground.
Citing the Rwandan experience, Lukman, who challenged Nigerians leaders to develop a problem solving mechanism rather than the continuous blame game, warned that the nation’s challenges are more likely to get worse if nothing is done to arrest the situation.
”It is hardly disputable that PDP mismanaged and squandered opportunities for sixteen years between 1999 and 2015.
No need to go into details as that is not the focus. What is more important at this point is the recognition that it was easy for Nigerians to register their support for APC, and on that account voted PDP out of power in 2015.
He asked “The question is, to what extent did the APC and its governments meet or are meeting the expectations of Nigerians? What are the challenges and how is the APC and its governments responding to these challenges? Compared to PDP, how different is the APC?
“The fundamental issue is the question of the extent to which APC leaders and members are responding to challenges.
Are we taking responsibility? The good thing is that, in APC, leaders are not in denial of the challenges.
This was not the case with PDP before 2015 and up till this moment.
However, being members of the APC, we should be able to acknowledge too that although, the slogan of the APC is CHANGE, which underlines the commitment of the party and its leadership to bring about change in the country, the programmatic details as articulated in the party’s manifesto require a mobilisation programme in order to win the support of Nigerians.
“One of the big gaps confronting the APC, which unfortunately makes it easy for opposition politicians to dent the party and its governments’ is the absence of mobilisation programme to engage Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endeavour in responding to challenges facing the country.
Getting Nigerians to take responsibility in their different fields of endevours in responding to challenges facing the country is a critical success factor in terms of producing the change envisioned by the APC and its leadership as articulated in the manifesto of the party.”
The Progressive Governors DG argued further that despite the wide recognition and acknowledgement that the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are deep rooted, it will require a robust programme of reorientation in the country to sustain the envisioned change APC and its leadership are working to achieve, adding that “once the focus and scope of initiatives is limited to operations of government institutions, and non-governmental institutions continue with business-as-usual practices, most of the challenges facing the country will linger.
” For instance, take the case of insecurity, which is the most important threat to the survival of the country. As much as combative military operations against insurgency in all its manifestations – banditry, kidnappings, abductions, etc. – is fundamental to restoring order and protection of lives and property in the country, equally important is also how Nigerians across all strata of social life are being mobilised to take responsibility in restoring order and guaranteeing security of life and property in every part of the country.
How is government working to raise awareness of Nigerians in terms of what to look out for as danger signals in our different communities? What kind of conducts by citizens, including community leaders constitute risk factors and therefore indicative of security challenges? What should be done, where and who to report to? What other initiatives should citizens take?
“It is painful that with all the initiatives of APC governments, especially Federal Government under President Buhari, the claim of any failure can be made.
Unlike all past governments since 1999, APC Federal Government is successfully implementing more initiatives and projects.
How can the APC government be successful in implementing almost all the projects past governments have failed to execute be termed a failure?” he queried
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PGF DG, Salihu Lukman canvases FG’s funding of CSOs, frowns at foreign donor funding
State Police will enhance Security – DG PGF Salihu Lukman
PGF DG, Salihu Lukman, blasts Sheik Gumi over bandits amnesty call
Our Leaders are united to move APC forward – PGF DG, Lukman
Salihu Lukman Resigns As APC North West Vice Chairman
