2027: Obasanjo should rally other former leaders to rescue Nigeria —Lukman

A former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has called on former President Olusegun Obasanjo to rally other former leaders to rescue Nigeria ahead of the next general election.
Lukman in a statement entitled, Satanic Leadership and Nigeria’s Boiling Point: Open Letter to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, expressed strong reservations about the lack of concerted efforts by the chieftains of the opposition leaders to work together and forge a common front ahead next general elections.
Lukman, who noted that certain presidential hopeful have been crisscrossing the country, individually to seek support for their aspiration in 2027, declared that such individual efforts would make a fresh mandate for Tinubu seamless.
He said: “Sadly, it would appear that the national mindset is uninterested about producing a functional political party. Part of the big drawback is the fact that almost everyone is preoccupied about candidates for elections, which has produced a fixated mentality across all shades of opinions in the country that is keeping the country in a permanent state of equilibrium that motivates politicians to operate based on capacity to impose candidates and rig elections.
“This has woefully reduced almost all politicians to anything but democratic. Consequently, very few politicians prioritise building relationship with citizens as basis of electoral victory. In other words, almost every average politician operates with a conquest mentality. As a result, the business of politics and governance is diminished to an assemblage of cheerleaders.
“These are the fundamental issues. So long as politics and governance are being diminished to the status of assemblage of cheerleaders, satanic genotype will continue to be Nigeria’s leadership makeup. With such makeup, acts of impunity will continue to drive politics and even if we produce new parties with different names, such parties will at best be PDP and APC cloned.
“That is exactly what destroyed APC with all the potentials it had in 2015. How can we as a nation change that? Is there any prospect that within the shortest time possible the process of political re-engineering to produce a functional party that can be activated to serve as the harbinger for the emergence of leaders with Godly genotype?
“Your Excellency, this is the crux of this open letter. I believe that within the shortest time possible the process of producing a functional political party, which can be the harbinger for the emergence of leaders with Godly genotype, is possible.
“In fact, it has already commenced. However, there are risk factors that if left on their own can pollute the process and take us back to square one and end up with another cloned PDP/APC. “Once that is the case, we may end up with worse leaders based on the satanic logic. The biggest risk factor is the failure to humble all opposition political leaders and get them to unite under one political platform. “Already, some opposition leaders are resisting efforts to form a united political platform largely because of their subsidiary ambitions to contest elections. On account of such subsidiary ambitions, some are already playing the old hegemonic games of assembly loyalists or cheerleaders. Three of them are former state governors.”
“There is also a group associated with one of the legacy parties that merged to form the APC. This group is already drawing so-called leadership lineup for an imaginary party to be formed by opposition leaders. “In many states, they have already chosen so-called Governorship candidates. With such outlook, it logically means they already have their Presidential candidate.
“There are some that are hiding behind some so-called consultation shuttle mission to some of you, notably Your Excellency and other past leaders such as Gen. Gowon and Gen. Babangida. Some of them are springing up regional and ethnic debates in the country and are forming so-called regional ‘democratic’ bodies that are nothing more than aristocrats with the mission of hoodwinking innocent citizens and end producing another assembly of Satanic leaders for Nigeria in 2027. A refutable Nigerian associated with one of the global financial institutions is being alleged to be the financier of one of the so-called regional ‘democratic’ bodies. The old card of imposition and potential strategy to rig 2027 is already rearing its ugly head.”
Lukman further alleged that the ruling party is instigating division within the rank of opposition leaders.
“I can say authoritatively that the current mindset of President Tinubu and APC is to keep the opposition divided as basis for winning the 2027 elections.
“I will emphatically therefore make the point that any political leader in disagreement with the current sad reality or what Your Excellency correctly described as Nigeria having leaders made by Satan, who refused to work with other opposition leaders, such a leader is inadvertently working for the electoral victory of APC and President Tinubu in 2027. And anyone who indulges or support such leaders is also inadvertently working for the electoral victory of APC and President Tinubu in 2027. Many of those inadvertently working for the electoral victory of APC and Asiwaju in 2027 have little or nothing to lose. If anything, these are people whose elasticity for survival is very high, their capacity to make personal adjustments to any situation they are confronted is limitless. They can continue to mismanage politics of the country, and by extension governance on accounts of narrow personal ambitions even if the country is to destroyed“.