Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been known as upon to forge a standard entrance for opposition political events to unseat incumbent President Bola Ahmed Tinubu within the 2027 presidential elections.
Former Director Normal of the Progressive Governors Discussion board (PGF), Salihu Lukman, in an open letter to Obasanjo titled, “Satanic Management and Nigeria’s Boiling Level,” on Monday in Abuja, warned that if the opposition is allowed to stay in disarray, President Tinubu would have a straightforward journey for his second time period within the 2027 ballot.
He remarked that Obasanjo, alongside Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, in addition to former presidents Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari, have the ethical obligation to have interaction all opposition political leaders within the nation to unite with a purpose to produce a practical political celebration that may function the harbinger for the emergence of godly leaders within the nation.
The ranks of the Peoples Democratic Get together (PDP), the Labour Get together (LP) and the New Nigeria Folks’s Get together (NNPP), cut up alongside numerous factions, have been transferring in droves to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) every day.
Lukman, who resigned his membership from the APC earlier within the 12 months, envisaged a repeat of the 2023 ballot the place the APC gained the 2023 elections because of the division inside the opposition.
The previous Nationwide Vice Chairman of the APC pressured that every thing should be finished to place Nigeria on the roadmap of manufacturing Godly leaders to reposition the nation towards the trail of sustainable development and growth.
“It’s not sufficient to lament concerning the truth of Satanic management within the nation. As long as Your Excellency and different previous leaders failed to claim their ethical authority in methods that may result in the emergence of Godly leaders, it’s nearly as good as working for the second time period of President Asiwaju and his staff of failed leaders in any respect ranges with all the issues they created. In fact, it merely means a desire for Satanic leaders,” he mentioned.
“My attraction, subsequently, is for you and all previous leaders of the nation to unconditionally declare help for the emergence of Godly leaders within the nation. That is solely potential if errors of the previous that led to the present unhappy actuality of getting Satanic leaders in any respect ranges are corrected. A method of reaching that’s by way of working to provide a practical political celebration.”
The Kaduna-born politician recalled how patriotic Nigerians labored to type the PDP in 1998, made it practical, and used it to barter a nationwide settlement resulting in Obasanjo’s emergence because the Presidential candidate and his eventual electoral victory in 1999.
He contended that it’s unlucky that Obasanjo largely contributed to producing these he termed “Satanic leaders” who took over in any respect ranges of Nigeria, largely as a result of all of the buildings which are required to facilitate the emergence of Godly leaders as candidates for elections have been weakened, if not destroyed.
He reminded Obasanjo that one among his unintended roles was how he inadvertently institutionalized the observe of imposition of candidates in political events within the polity.
He famous: “With out going into particulars, you’ll recall how within the PDP, forward of the 2007 elections, below Your Excellency’s management, the observe of imposition of candidates grew to become the political gown of the PDP.”
“Ultimately, being the ruling celebration for sixteen years, imposition of candidates grew to become a suitable political rule. With imposition, mainly, our democracy misplaced its bearing and have become a shadow of the worst authoritarian system.”
“Associated to imposition is the issue of rigging. Once more, with out making an attempt to indict you, you’ll recall how INEC below Prof. Maurice Iwu, throughout your tenure, rigged the 2007 elections in favour of the PDP. It’s a unhappy reminder that at the moment, INEC declared the results of the Presidential election earlier than the collation of outcomes was concluded.”
“Like I mentioned, Your Excellency, I don’t intend to carry all these to indict you. I’m solely citing them in order that you’ll be able to acknowledge your individual errors.
There is no such thing as a method we are able to interact in any significant debate about how one can play a vital position in producing leaders with a Godly genotype for Nigeria with out developing with legitimate suggestions on how one can cope with the dual political monsters of imposition of candidates and electoral rigging in Nigeria.”
