A former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has urged former President Olusegun Obasanjo to convene a coalition of past leaders to unify the opposition in establishing a new political party aimed at contesting against President Bola Tinubu and the APC in the upcoming 2027 general election.
Lukman’s comments were prompted by an interview in which Obasanjo remarked that “a leader made by Satan is bound to fail, while God’s chosen one will thrive.”
The former APC official emphasized that to cultivate leaders of integrity devoid of malevolent influences, Obasanjo, along with other former leaders such as Generals Yakubu Gowon, Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and former President Goodluck Jonathan, bears a significant moral responsibility to engage with all opposition political figures in the country. This collaboration is essential for the formation of a viable political party.
In an open letter addressed to Obasanjo, Lukman stated, “Every effort must be made to guide Nigeria towards the emergence of 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 a preference for Satanic leaders.”
He asserts that as long as politics and governance are reduced to mere gatherings of supporters, the leadership structure in Nigeria will remain influenced by a detrimental ethos.
Lukman further stated that under these circumstances, acts of impunity will persist in shaping political dynamics, and even if new political parties emerge with different titles, they will ultimately resemble clones of the PDP and APC.
“That is exactly what destroyed APC with all the potential 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 genotypes, is possible.
“In fact, it has already commenced. However, there are risk factors that, if left on their ow,n 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,” the politician added.
