A former National Vice Chairman, North-West of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Salihu Lukman has accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi and other opposition leaders and politically displaced politicians of contributing to the current political travesty of the country.
Lukman in a statement issued Sunday said the worrying reality is that many of these opposition and displaced politicians with ambitions are highly complicit and have little or no credentials of emerging as better political leaders.
He noted: “Based on lay person’s legal knowledge, many of these politicians would be adjudged to being accessories, whether before or after, to our current political travesty.
“Given their records of service, they are most likely to be worse than former Presidents Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari and now President Tinubu.
“Based on their records, they exhibit intolerant dispositions and poor relationships on accounts of which they have mismanaged their transitions and are today hardly in control of political structures in their states.
“Some of them, on account of their influential roles in past administrations and the failures of those administrations should be humble enough to take a backseat in effort to build a strong coalition to strengthen Nigerian politics. Instead, it is more like a case of unrepentant show of shame.”
“Just imagine Alh. Atiku Abubakar, or Mr. Peter Obi, or Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, or or Dr. Kayode Fayemi, or Sen. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal or Mal. Nasir El-Rufai, or other opposition and displaced leaders with ambitions to contest becoming leaders of the new party.”
Lukman was of the opinion that if all these people decide that in order to lay a solid foundation for the emergence of a strong party, all of them or majority of them would instead aspire to become part of the leaders of the new party.
He said if that happens, the new party could guarantee collegiate leadership similar to what was witnessed in the second republic political parties, especially the NPN.
Lukman said failure to have that could simply mean that the new party risked being oriented in old ways with a political culture of imposition becoming dominant.