A former National Vice Chairman,
Northwest, of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Salihu Moh. Lukman has
written former President Olusegun Obasanjo, urging him to rally some former
leaders of the country to unite the opposition in forming a new political party
to challenge President Bola Tinubu and his ruling All Progressives Congress APC
ahead of the 2027 general election.
Lukman was reacting to a December
8 newspaper interview where Chief Obasanjo 2024, was quoted to have said that
‘a leader made by Satan is bound to fail, while God’s chosen one will thrive’.
He said to produce godly leaders
without satanic genotypes, Obasanjo and other oast leaders like Generals Yakubu
Gowon, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida Abdulsalami Abubakar and former
President Goodluck Jonathan have a huge moral obligation of engaging all
opposition political leaders in the country to unite in order to produce a
functional political party.
In the open letter to Obasanjo,
Lukman said; “Everything must be done to put Nigeria on the roadmap of
producing Godly leaders. Leaders such as Your Excellency, together with Gen.
Gowon, Gen. Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalam, former President Jonathan and former
President Buhari have the huge moral obligation of engaging all opposition
political leaders in the country to unite in order to produce a functional
political party that can serve as the harbinger for the emergence of Godly
leaders in the country.
“It is not enough to lament about
the fact of Satanic leadership in the country. So long as Your Excellency and
other past leaders fail to assert their moral authority in ways that can lead
to the emergence of Godly leaders, it is as good as working for the second term
of President Tinubu and his team of failed leaders at all levels with all the
problems they created. Of course, it simply means preference for Satanic
leaders”.
He said 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 assembling
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 who are hiding
behind some so-called consultation shuttle missions 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 up
producing another assembly of Satanic leaders for Nigeria in 2027. A reputable
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.
“The point is many political
leaders who are expected to team up as a united body committed to producing a
functional political party in the country capable of serving as the harbinger
for the emergence of Godly leadership in Nigeria are refusing to accept to join
forces with other political leaders in the opposition camp. Interestingly, many
of them are adjudged to be close to Your Excellency and there are public
speculations that you are encouraging them. I was privileged to be in the
leadership of APC during the 2023 elections and I can say without fear of
contradictions that APC won the 2023 elections on account of the division
within the opposition. Although I have withdrawn my membership of APC, 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 Asiwaju
in 2027. And anyone who indulges or support such leaders is also inadvertently
working for the electoral victory of APC and President Asiwaju 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 be destroyed.
Some of them have citizenships of other countries and those of them who don’t
have citizenship of other countries can easily acquire one given their profile,
which is partly why they could afford to be reckless and unconcerned about
whether Nigeria is held in the grip of Satanic leaders”, Lukman declared.
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