Convener of The Various, Segun Sowunmi has criticised the coalition drive across the African Democratic Congress (ADC), arguing that the profitable coalition template in Nigerian politics was belongs to President Bola Tinubu and former President Muhammadu Buhari and can’t be casually replicated.
Talking on TVC’s Breakfast programme on Thursday, Sowunmi mentioned the political alliance that produced the All Progressives Congress (APC) was constructed on years of ideological stability and arduous work, qualities he argued are lacking within the present ADC-led coalition effort.
“Initially, you will need to concede that the playbook of a coalition political get together belongs to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari in that bloc. I don’t imply them as people, however inside their bloc. They introduced stability of ideological conditions to the desk,” Sowunmi mentioned.
He defined that Tinubu and Buhari had been capable of work collectively as a result of they’d long-standing political identities, noting that Tinubu had at all times been related to the AD and AC political custom, whereas Buhari remained rooted within the ANPP.
“To that extent, once they needed to do a coalition, they may think about themselves to be from the identical materials, solely becoming a member of collectively political numbers,” he added.
Sowunmi faulted present coalition advocates, notably throughout the ADC, accusing them of making an attempt to repeat a mannequin they neither perceive nor helped to construct.
“The problem with these individuals now could be that those that need to do coalition are an affordable, faux set of people who don’t perceive that it’s important to rewrite the ebook,” he mentioned.
“You may’t run on the playbook of Bola Tinubu and Buhari, which they invented, and suppose you’re going to beat them at a recreation they invented.”
He maintained that coalition-building requires intense grassroots work and political sacrifice, stressing that Tinubu and Buhari didn’t obtain their alliance in a single day.
In response to him, each leaders had been unable to type a coalition in 2011 and solely succeeded later after abandoning their former events and persuading different politicians to affix a brand new political platform.
“Should you watch the individuals calling coalition now, they don’t need to do the heavy lifting,” Sowunmi mentioned. “The arduous work of coalition constructing goes again to the events on the base.”
Utilizing the ADC for instance, he argued that the get together’s management disaster stemmed from makes an attempt to take management from the highest with out due regard for constitutional processes.
“They hopped onto a celebration that had existed for a while and tried to seize it on the prime, with out wanting on the constitutional necessities,” he mentioned, including that the strategy had inevitably led to inner disaster.
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