2027: OBJ, GEJ, Buhari, Others Should Form New Party to Challenge Tinubu, Says Lukman

Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja

A former National Vice Chairman, Northwest, of the  All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman, has called former President Olusegun Obasanjo to rally other former leaders  to unite the opposition in forming a new political party to challenge President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 elections.

He said Obasanjo alongside Gen. Yakubu Gowon (rtd), Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, former President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Muhammadu Buhari have a huge moral obligation of engaging all opposition political leaders in the country to unite in order to produce a functional political party.

Lukman noted that if Obasanjo and other former  leaders failed to assert their moral authority in ways that could lead to the emergence of Godly leaders, it was as good as working for the second term of  Tinubu.

He stated this in a statement while reacting to a report where Obasanjo was quoted to have said that ‘a leader made by Satan is bound to fail, while God’s chosen one will thrive’.

Lukman, in the open letter to Obasanjo said: “Everything must be done to put Nigeria on the roadmap of producing Godly leaders.

“Leaders such as Your Excellency, together with Gen. Gowon, Gen. Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalam, former President Jonathan and former President Buhari have the huge moral obligation of engaging all opposition political leaders in the country to unite in order to produce a functional political party that can serve as the harbinger for the emergence of Godly leaders in the country.

“It is not enough to lament about the fact of Satanic leadership in the country.

“So long as Your Excellency and other past leaders fail to assert their moral authority in ways that can lead to the emergence of Godly leaders, it is as good as working for the second term of President Tinubu and his team of failed leaders at all levels with all the problems they created. Of course, it simply means preference for Satanic leaders.”

Lukman added that with such makeup, acts of impunity would continue to drive politics and even if new parties were formed with different names, such parties would at best be PDP and APC cloned.