Former All Progressives Congress (APC) National Vice Chairman, Salihu Lukman, has criticised former President Muhammadu Buhari and incumbent President Bola Tinubu, alleging they have failed to provide effective leadership.
In a statement on Saturday, Lukman asserted that the APC, under Buhari and Tinubu, has ruined Nigeria. He emphasized that the 2027 elections offer a crucial opportunity to replace them.
However, Lukman cautioned that merely replacing the APC is insufficient. He advocated for establishing a system that holds elected officials accountable.
Lukman expressed concern that leading opposition politicians, including Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Mr Peter Obi, and Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are prioritising personal presidential ambitions over collective efforts to rescue Nigeria.
He noted that President Tinubu’s strength stems from the opposition’s inability to form a united front.
“At this point, it is important to appeal to our key opposition leaders to wake up and try to be compassionate and appreciate the gravity of the dire situation facing citizens.
“The big question is whether, on account of personal ambitions, we want to continue to mismanage our reality and sacrifice every opportunity, which ideally a democratic system offers.
“The opportunity that the democratic system offers is that any government, which fails its citizens should be voted out. No doubt, by any standard, both President Tinubu and APC have failed Nigerians. It is quite disheartening that a party, which came with all the promises of changing Nigeria for the better has ended up ruining the country.
“From the economy to problems of insecurity and corruption, which were the three cardinal challenges APC and former President Muhammadu Buhari promised to tackle in 2015, what we had in 2015 is a child’s play today.
“The hard truth is that both former President Buhari and President Tinubu have turned out to be self-centred and unable to produce the needed leadership to pull the country out of its current challenges.
“Certainly, all of us who were actively in support of these leaders never imagined that they would be such colossal failures,” Lukman asserted.
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