Opposition working for Tinubu’s second term, Lukman alleges 

Bode George traces situation successful PDP

Former Director General of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, has alleged that absorption governmental parties are moving covertly for President Bola Tinubu’s 2nd word arsenic President.

Meanwhile, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Bode George, has traced the interior strife wrong the enactment to injustice and the leaders’ refusal to abide by the constitution.

Lukman, successful a portion entitled ‘Looming Danger of Docile Political Opposition’, remarked that the care-free disposition of the absorption could nutrient what helium termed “the disastrous outcome” whereby Nigerians whitethorn beryllium incapable to alteration Tinubu’s authorities successful 2027.

Acknowledging ongoing discussions astir what needs to beryllium done by chieftains of absorption parties successful the mould of Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), helium expressed interest that those discussions had yet to postgraduate to structured governmental engagements connected the platforms of immoderate of the existing absorption parties.

Lukman, who precocious resigned his rank successful the All Progressives Congress (APC), claimed that nary of the absorption parties, which ordinarily should beryllium starring the absorption to Tinubu’s government, was making immoderate effort to unite absorption governmental leaders successful the country.

Instead, helium argued, each the starring absorption parties are embroiled successful immoderate embarrassing interior crisis, which has pitched their leaders against 1 another.

According to the Kaduna-born politician, it is rather appalling that PDP leaders are antagonistic to Atiku, Obi is successful the midst of a helpless endurance enactment conflict successful LP and Kwankwaso is oversighting a directionless NNPP whose extortion is being blown distant by its alleged leaders.

The situation, helium added, is worsened by the information that the different parties person adopted a monarchic behaviour, sitting successful their comfortableness zones waiting for disgruntled and aggrieved absorption governmental leaders to travel to them for immoderate ‘royal’ covers.

He lamented: “All these person contributed to emboldening Tinubu and his APC to marque insensitive and reckless decisions, daily, which worsen citizens’ information of living.

“On a standard ne'er imagined successful the country, Nigerians crossed each divides are surviving successful agony connected relationship of harsh surviving world owed to reckless argumentation decisions, portion the authorities continues to indulge successful illogical luxurious nationalist expenditure without recourse to owed process.”

FOR lasting bid to return, George charged PDP stakeholders to undertake an unbiased post-mortem of the causes of the situation earlier mounting up a reconciliation committee.

While discussing the topic, ‘National Reconciliation and Discipline successful the PDP’ connected television, connected Sunday night, George described the mounting up of a reconciliation committee arsenic putting the cart earlier the horse.

The PDP chieftain said, “There’s nary accidental successful the satellite that the president of the enactment volition travel from the aforesaid portion arsenic the statesmanlike campaigner of the party. That was wherever the disagreement started, and they didn’t grip it well. That was wherefore we went to war, divided. And, of course, divided, however volition we not beryllium defeated house?

“We could not forestall that from happening. As we are now, determination is nary coagulated absorption to antagonistic the lacklustre oregon non-seriousness of those successful government. We are engaged fighting.”

Speaking connected events preceding the situation and the efforts made to reconcile feuding members, the erstwhile National Vice Chairman South West Zone of PDP said: “I was 1 of those elected connected the archetypal elective normal of our enactment successful December 1998, and we knew what they handed over; nary perpetuity successful immoderate office. That is wherefore they gave 3 to the South and 3 to the North.

“All positions volition not travel to the South. All positions volition not travel to the North. And arsenic they go, they rotate astir there. But they wanted to denounce that and we refused.”