As far as the former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, is concerned, the administrations of former President Muhammadu Buhari and his successor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu are far worse than 16 years of the era of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Lukman, in a statement, said it was disheartening that the APC, which has come with all the promises of changing Nigeria for the better has ended up ruining the country.
The immediate past national vice chairman of the APC argued that the economic, insecurity, and corruption challenges as of 2015 was a child’s play compared to the present situation.
Lamenting the crisis bedeviling the leading opposition political parties in the mold of the PDP, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and the Labour Party (LP), he called for concerted efforts by the ilks of Atiku Abubakar, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and Peter Obi to unseat President Tinubu led administration in the 2027 poll.
“If with all the trust Nigerians invested in former President Buhari and President Asiwaju Tinubu ended up producing the disastrous outcome of today’s reality whereby across all shades and divides, we are faced with the current existential crisis, why should any leader be trusted?,” Lukman said.
“The hard truth is that both former President Buhari and President Asiwaju Tinubu have turned out to be self-centred and unable to produce the needed leadership to pull the country out its current challenges.
“Certainly, all of us who were actively in support of these leaders never emerging they will be such colossal failure. With such poignant experience, it is very troubling.
“Troubling, largely because the basis of political relations with these leaders was limited to supporting their personal ambitions to become President.
“Once they achieve that they turn out to lack the humility and respect for subordinates. They fail to consult and even destroyed all structures for consultations, including demolishing structures of the party that made it possible for them to achieve their personal ambitions.
“We have moved from being opposition politicians to becoming a ruling party since 2015. Sadly, as a ruling party, we have become worse than the PDP we defeated in 2015.
“Unlike in the days of the PDP that allowed for opposition parties to function, we are today confronted with the ugly and depressing reality whereby all the opposition parties are being manipulated into deeper crisis of existential nature.”
