Salisu Moh Lukman, Director General of Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) has raised concern that some leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are leading a rebellion against President Muhammadu Buhari as the clock ticks to the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting on Thursday.

Luckman said the leaders through their various media outlets are subtly instigating rebellion against president Buhari and an outright boycott of the NEC.

Recall that the Party has been embroiled in internal schism for years on end. The present intervention at the instance of President Buhari he said is about the first time the party leader is responding to agitation by members.

The PGF DG, who himself sought drastic action to halt the unrestrained slide of the ruling party, insisted that it is either the party is allowed to fizzle to oblivion or the President acts to end the endless battle for the soul of APC.

He regrets that some leaders of the party are actually acting as “blacklegs” blocking the progress of the party.

“Some drastic steps are just required to restore some order and sanity in APC. With all the confusion as to who is our presiding officer, coupled with the fact that the most important structure that is saddled with the responsibility of convening meetings of all organs of the party is fractured and entangled in webs of legal cases, it is either the confusion is allowed to continue and eventual end with the demise of the party, or our leaders find a way to save the party.

“Given such a situation, one would expect our leaders to be united in saving the situation. Will this be the case? Or are we going to have blacklegs acting as so-called leaders working to ensure the demise of the party through creating all manner of divisions just to ensure that the current ugly situation is retained?

“Would these blacklegs seek to create or entrench all manner of legal confusion?

While urging leaders of the party to support the presidential intervention, Lukman maintained that the days and weeks ahead are crucial for the party.

“The days ahead will confirm whether we have party leaders or blacklegs. All committed party members and leaders should rally behind President Buhari in support of the scheduled NEC to hold so that we are able to reset the APC back to its 2013 orientation of inclusive and participatory politics.

“To achieve that, the public debate should be about proposals to ensure that the NEC succeed rather than attempting to throw up legal blockades”!