{"id":163897,"date":"2025-05-23T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman"},"modified":"2025-05-24T00:45:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T23:45:43","slug":"apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","title":{"rendered":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling party is gradually moving away from its founding ideals of progressivism towards a structure that resembles centralised control.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief, on Friday, Lukman decried that internal contests had been abandoned in favour of automatic adoptions.<\/p>\n<p>The former APC chieftain, while reflecting on his role in the formation of the APC, expressed displeasure in the party\u2019s current direction, claiming it had drifted from its founding ideals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC has moved from a party envisioned to be progressive to almost a monarchy. As it is now, the APC mantra is that there will be no internal contest in 2027 \u2014 the President is adopted. All their governors are adopted. Legislators are also adopted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, none of the political parties in Nigeria function as real parties in the classical sense, adding that political organisations that do not uphold their constitutions or hold regular internal meetings cannot be considered true parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny party whose elected representatives are not accountable is not a party in the classical sense,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-APC National Vice Chairman (Northwest), however, disclosed that negotiations for a new opposition alliance ahead of the 2027 elections were in their final stages.<\/p>\n<p>Lukman stated further that discussions had been ongoing for over a year to establish a viable platform capable of challenging the current political status quo.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lukman, the coalition aims to contest the 2027 general elections by either forming a new political party or transforming an existing one.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the rationale behind the coalition effort, Lukman explained that the main crisis facing Nigeria\u2019s democracy was the absence of genuine political parties.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that efforts are now focused on negotiating with an existing party to transform it structurally and ideologically.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-APC chieftain explained that conditions set by the coalition include a complete leadership overhaul, constitutional reforms, and a new internal culture where candidates emerge through transparent contests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling party is gradually moving away from its founding ideals of progressivism towards a structure that resembles centralised control. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s breakfast programme, The Morning Brief, on Friday, Lukman decried that internal contests had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":163896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,254,1970],"class_list":["post-163897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-nigeria","tag-salihu-lukman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\"},\"wordCount\":357,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"APC\",\"Nigeria\",\"Salihu Lukman\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\",\"name\":\"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman - Nigeria","description":"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman","og_description":"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman","datePublished":"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman"},"wordCount":357,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg","keywords":["APC","Nigeria","Salihu Lukman"],"articleSection":["all news","Parties"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman","name":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-23T22:28:55+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-23T23:45:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"An erstwhile National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Salihu Lukman, says the ruling p ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1748031379.420493.jpg","width":1200,"height":720,"caption":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-gradually-sliding-into-monarchy-salihu-lukman#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"APC gradually sliding into monarchy \u2014 Salihu Lukman"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}