A former National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called on the opposition leaders, including Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar and Rabiu Kwankwaso, to come together and form a strong opposition force against President Bola Tinubu.
The former APC chieftain, Salihu Lukman, said there will be risks if there is no structured engagement between the leading opposition political parties, their leaders and some APC stakeholders who are discontented with President Tinubu’s leadership style by the end of 2024.
In a statement on Monday, Lukman argued that the opposition parties and their leaders have resorted to carefreeness and an unserious disposition that could produce disastrous outcomes in the 2027 election.
He noted that there was a need for the opposition parties and their leaders to work towards forming a united political front that would oust the ruling APC and President Tinubu.
The statement read in part: “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.
“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.”
Naija News reported that the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, met with former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, in what is believed to be discussions on a merger ahead of the 2027 election.
The former vice president had consistently called on opposition political parties to form a united front against President Tinubu.