Former presidential spokesperson and Director-General of Peter Obi’s Presidential Campaign Organisation, Doyin Okupe, has said that it is impossible for an alliance of the opposition to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
According to him, alliances against Tinubu will fail because the participants will not be willing to give concessions.
Speaking to newsmen on Thursday, the former LP chieftain argued that Nigerian politicians have not attained the level of maturity to give rational and reasonable concessions.
He said, “I have been in this game for 40 years and above. I came into politics in 1978. I have been in several talks, and discussions and I have represented my party, and my movement in several alliances.
“We have not attained that maturity to get to the level of being rational and reasonable and ready to give the necessary concession for a group interest. We are not there yet.
“Even if you look at our private businesses, go and check, 90 per cent of business partnerships will crumble within the first three years.
“I wish those who are trying alliance, I wish them luck but it is going to end up the same way it has always ended up. All the alliances will end up in futility.”
On the alliance that brought ex-President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, Okupe said that though he criticised the alliance, the leader of the alliance, Tinubu, conceded everything to make it work.
“The man who spearheaded that alliance has grown beyond this constitution of naivety and selfishness.
“You put up an alliance, you set up a dining table, you cook food, and say other people should go and eat it. It is not done anywhere
“Everything, he conceded, so that the thing could work,” he said
He expressed doubt in the readiness and willingness of opposition leaders such as Alhaji Atiku Abubakar (PDP), Peter Obi (LP), and Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, mulling an alliance against Tinubu in 2027, to concede for one another.
“If you look at it very well, that kind of maturity does not exist,” Okupe added.
