2027: Ex-APC NWC member begs Obasanjo, Babangida, Abdulsalam, others to float mega party

Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, former national vice chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Moh Lukman, has written to former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, to mobilise former leaders to float a mega party to challenge President Bola Tinubu and his party.

Lukman, in his letter also revealed how the refusal of some opposition leaders, including three former governors, to join forces to form a united political platform because of their ambitions to contest elections affected the planned formation.

The letter read: “We must not shield mistakes of the past with some imaginary explanations of leaders created by Satan and those created by God. While appealing to Your Excellency to take responsibility, may I also respectfully use you as a point of contact to all the past surviving leaders of this great nation called Nigeria. Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, former presidents, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari are past leaders of this country, who God in his infinite mercy, has blessed with long life.

“Without resorting to any blame game, whether today’s leaders of this country are made by Satan or God, all of you put together, individually and collectively, are the parents of today’s Satanic leaders of Nigeria. I am making this point very cautiously, and advisedly.

“It is never intended to disrespect any of you, but to emphatically make the point that today’s Satanic leaders are produced because of the shortcomings and mistakes of past leaders. A decisive factor in all of these is the attempt to manipulate the emergence of successive Nigerian leaders.

“All the major challenges faced by Nigeria since independence are the result of attempts by all past leaders, including Your Excellency, to produce anointed successors.

“In varying degrees, this is responsible for all the political crises facing Nigeria and the derivative social and economic crises, which progressively got worse under all successive leaders. That Nigeria’s challenges are getting worse might be confirmation of Satanic leaders.

“To the extent that human life in Nigeria is no longer secure, which basically means returning to Hobbesian state with life becoming ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

The former Director General of the APC’s Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF) claimed that, “Whether Nigeria can produce leaders with Godly genotype and not Satanic genotype depends on whether we can re-engineer our politics to produce at least one political party with potential to produce leaders with Godly genotype.

“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 a so-called leadership lineup for an imaginary party to be formed by the opposition leaders.

“In many states, they have already chosen the so-called governorship candidates. With such an outlook, it logically means they already have their presidential candidate.”