A former vice-chair of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-west, Salihu Lukman has said that President Bola Tinubu will be defeated in 2027.
He made this statement on Wednesday night when he appeared on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television – just few days after the ruling party said he has a history of “opportunistic politicking”.
President Tinubu has not indicated interest to seek reelection in 2027.
Lukman, whilst speaking on the programme, said the same way Nigerians were able to get the military out of power, is how they would expel Tinubu from office.
“I guarantee you and I am confident… the same way we were able to get the military out of power, we are going to correct the current mess,” Lukman said.
“We are going to get to a situation where we have a functional political party, and APC and President Asiwaju will be defeated in 2027, and we will produce leaders that will be servants to citizens, not leaders that are emperors.”
He added that in the build-up to the 2015 elections, APC promised to suppress insecurity, but that has increased.
“The issue of insecurity at that time was Boko Haram. It didn’t degenerate to banditry like we are having it today, of course there were cattle rustling in north-west and north-central, but it didn’t graduate to banditry like this,” he said.
“From 2015 till now, insecurity has taken over north-west, north-central and is heading south.
“My honest assessment is that things have gotten worse. I wish security agencies could release statistics of how many people have been killed or kidnapped.
“In the area of security we have gotten worse.”
Conclusively, Lukman said regardless of the issues bedeviling the opposition parties, there is a need for them “to come together and respond to the challenge”.