Former National Vice Chairman, North-West of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman has identified internal crisis, lack of cohesion and pursuit of individual aspirations, as obstacles to formidable opposition forces against the ruling APC. Lukman in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday, entitled, ‘Looming Danger of Docile Political Opposition’, alleged that the Presidency has infiltrated the predominant political parties, instigated crises and it would be difficult to dislodge the incumbent, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He said:” Acknowledging that there are isolated ongoing discussions about what needs to be done in 2027, it is very worrisome that those discussions are yet to graduate to structured political engagements on the platforms of any of the existing opposition political parties.
“Unfortunately, if anything, it is almost a case that all the existing registered political parties are decidedly in support of President Asiwaju Tinubu and to that extent therefore working covertly for his second term victory in 2027. So far, arguably, none of the parties, which ordinarily should be leading the opposition to President Asiwaju Tinubu’s government is making any effort to recruit and unite opposition political leaders in the country. Instead, all the leading opposition political parties are embroiled in some embarrassing internal crisis, which has pitched leaders of the parties against each other.
“It is quite appalling, for instance, that PDP leader.