One of the leading figures in the African Democratic Congress coalition and former All Progressives Congress chieftain, Salihu Lukman, has suspended his membership of the party and the opposition coalition.
He accused former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, of orchestrating the hostile treatment and political marginalisation that forced him to quit.
In a message addressed to the National Chairman of the ADC, Senator David Mark, and copied to coalition leaders, Lukman said his decision followed months of what he described as sustained hostility by El-Rufai and his political associates over the leadership and direction of the party in Kaduna State.
“This may come to you as a disappointment. I am very sorry. I just can’t continue to bear the painful, hostile treatment I keep getting from some leaders from Kaduna, especially Mallam Nasir,” Lukman wrote.
He alleged that decisions concerning leadership representation in Kaduna were being manipulated to sideline him, claiming he had been reduced “to the status of a bastard” within a coalition he had worked hard to build.
