A former National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Salihu Lukman has said that opposition leaders must develop an alternative political platform by December 2024 if they are to wrestle power from President Bola Tinubu and the APC.
He 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 issued Monday stressed that while 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: “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 a strategic initiative to develop the alternative political platform, oriented based on the 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 the relationship among political leaders in the country is limited to support for personal ambition to emerge as candidates, it signposts a looming danger and prospect of producing a government worse than the current one.
“Irrespective of whether the government is led by Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Sen Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso or any of the orphaned leaders of APC, any successive government that emerged based on personal ambition of political leaders risks being worse,” he said.
