Former Nationwide Vice Chairman (North West) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has declared that Nigerians will use their democratic energy to take away President Bola Tinubu within the 2027 normal elections, citing worsening financial situations and failed management.
Lukman made the assertion on Wednesday throughout an interview on Come up Tv’s Information Day, the place he spoke as one of many promoters of the opposition coalition now working beneath the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
“I’m a type of who actually stood by Asiwaju after I was in APC, I campaigned for him however the onerous fact have to be informed. He has failed and we’re feeling it by the truth of our residing situation right this moment.
“To that extent due to this fact, so far as I’m involved, we’ll exert our democratic rights to get him out of the place however that won’t in any manner jeopardise any negotiation to guard problems with fairness, inclusivity and what have you ever,” Lukman mentioned.
The previous APC chieftain resigned from the celebration in June 2024, citing inside disaster and the failure of its management to implement mandatory reforms.
Now energetic within the coalition-backed ADC, Lukman has additionally sounded a warning concerning the danger of repeating previous political errors.
He expressed concern that rising leaders inside the new coalition might grow to be political godfathers and derail the celebration’s democratic beliefs forward of the 2027 elections.
“With the best way issues are going, coalition leaders will emerge as godfathers, and the subsequent factor is that they may impose their surrogates in any respect ranges as leaders of the ADC,” he predicted.
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