Lukman: Unserious Opposition Leaders Will Make it Difficult to Unseat Tinubu in 2027

•Says failure to sack APC in 2027 will spell doom for Nigeria

Chuks Okocha and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

A former National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman has warned that the unserious disposition of opposition leaders  might make it difficult to change the government of President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

Lukman, in a statement, yesterday, noted that although it was a shared concern among these leaders that the situation in the country has deteriorated, there was hardly any definitive engagement with the clear objective of mobilising Nigerians to effect a change in 2027.

He  said  opposition leaders must develop an alternative political platform by December 2024 if they were to wrest power from Tinubu and the APC.

The former APC chieftain said Nigerians were going through very harsh and  excruciating conditions, adding that since the commencement of the fourth republic, it has been a case of progressive degeneration that invariably brought the country to its knees whereby public resources are now practically the private resources of so-called elected leaders.

He pointed out that developing alternative political platforms in the country should be about restoring the virtue of selflessness among political leaders.

Lukman emphasised that opposition political leaders must recognise the urgency requiring strategic initiative to produce the alternative political platform to rescue Nigeria.

“It has become necessary to draw the attention of opposition political leaders in the country that the current care-free or unserious disposition could produce the disastrous outcome whereby Nigerians may be unable to change the government of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027.

“The reality is that if by the end of December 2024, no structured engagement has commenced based on strategic initiative to develop the alternative political platform, oriented based on selfless disposition of opposition political leaders, it simply means that any opposition to APC and President Asiwaju Tinubu in 2027 will be based on personal ambitions of individual political leaders.”

Lukman noted that so long as relationship among political leaders in the country was limited to support for personal ambition to emerge as candidates, it signposted a looming danger and prospect of producing a government worse than the current one.