The Director-General of the Progressives Governors’ Forum, Dr. Salihu Lukman, has advocated elected and appointed members of the All Progressives Congress to stay faithful to the commitment to support instead of the cheap hotel to baseless propaganda.
He clarified that a resort to propaganda in the sight of an obvious failure to respond to the demands of citizens alienates leaders and erodes the party’s electoral viability.
The paper was made available on Sunday.
The PGF DG stated, “Inability to respond to the needs of citizens alienate leaders and erode electoral viability. In most instances, we envision that resort to propaganda can resolve our social and national challenges. This is very wrong.
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“We can do all of the propaganda and take over all the media spaces in our constituencies and in the country, it won’t alter the reality facing citizens. This is mainly because propaganda which is not founded on concrete and strategic answers to our social and domestic problems, won’t improve the lives of citizens.
“Therefore, beyond propaganda, both as citizens and party members, we’ve got a responsibility to receive our leaders to employ themselves very efficiently and honestly to resolve our societal and national challenges. Achieving this entails our leaders must recognize that they don’t have all of the solutions.
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“This is where as politicians, most instances we fail because we participate citizens with the false claim that we’ve got the answers and anybody with a contrary position is a competition, if not an enemy. Once this is the case, ab initio, political contestation is blocked.”
