Salihu Lukman, the Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum has quit his job over controversies surrounding the National Convention of the All Progressives Congress scheduled for February.
The former DG had argued that APC’s convention should hold in February as previously agreed by the Forum last November.
Controversies arose around the party’s convention, as some of the leaders of the ruling party opposed the February arrangement. However, Lukman said the delay in the holding of the convention was blamed on the Chairman and Secretary of the party’s Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee.
He had insisted that the committee, led by Mai Mala Buni, should be compelled to conduct the convention in February as agreed. In the absence of that, he had threatened to resign.
At the end of their emergency meeting in Abuja late Sunday night, the governors agreed to hold the convention as agreed but requested the committee to consult widely to arrive at the date of the event.
