‎G100 Convener speaks on major obstacle to anti-Tinubu alliance  – Daily Trust

‎Convener of the G100 political stress group, Salihu Lukman, has highlighted a few of the major challenges presenting opposition political events from reaching its goal to current a single presidential candidate to problem the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) within the 2027 basic elections.
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Speaking on Channels Television’s Hard Copy, Lukman, nonetheless, expressed confidence that ongoing consultations amongst opposition events would produce an settlement on a typical candidate.
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‎He mentioned the events had made progress past the expectations of the G100 group, which has been participating political leaders to unite the opposition forward of the elections.
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‎“Well, first, let me remind you that once we got here collectively as G100, our goal was to have interaction the political events and their candidates and get them to recognise the problem.

‎“So far, the indicators are there. We have succeeded beyond some of our expectations, and I’m sure the leadership of the parties will begin to make public statements themselves to indicate the direction they are going,” he mentioned.
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‎Lukman mentioned the events had taken over the method of negotiations and had been participating each other to construct the arrogance and belief required to agree on a consensus candidate.

‎He recognized the dearth of belief amongst opposition events and their presidential candidates as one of many major obstacles to the proposed alliance.
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‎“The major issues which you journalists keep highlighting and you don’t help matters at all is the trust deficit among even the parties and the candidates,” he mentioned.
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‎According to him, the G100 believes that the standard of relationships among the many events and their candidates will decide whether or not they can agree to make the required sacrifices for a typical political goal.
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‎Lukman expressed confidence that the opposition leaders would ultimately attain an settlement, arguing that permitting their candidates to contest individually may weaken their probabilities of defeating the APC.
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‎He cited the place of Catholic cleric, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, whom he mentioned had equally warned that opposition candidates may undermine their probabilities by splitting the votes amongst themselves.
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‎“There is no way candidates will split, opposition candidate will split people five ways and expect one of them to win against a ruling party.
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‎“They are just basically handing over victory to the ruling party,” Lukman mentioned, recounting Onaiyekan’s argument.
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‎The G100 convener mentioned the opposition events had agreed to set up a working group to develop suggestions on how to choose a consensus presidential candidate.
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‎He mentioned the choice shaped a part of the resolutions reached at an opposition summit held on August 31, 2026.
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‎According to him, the summit agreed to set up 5 working teams, together with one particularly tasked with creating a framework for choosing the only candidate.
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‎Lukman mentioned that the political events and their presidential candidates would nominate representatives to the working group, which might function inside an agreed framework and timeframe.
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‎He mentioned the group would make suggestions and suggest choices to information negotiations among the many events.
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‎“The aim is basically about ensuring that both the parties and their candidates are the ones taking the decisions,” he mentioned.
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