A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Segun Sowunmi, has predicted a quick downfall of the opposition coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

The PDP chieftain stated that the coalition has too many politicians eyeing the 2027 presidency, hence, they won’t be able to reach an agreement among themselves.

He also blamed the members of the coalition for being part of previous governments that plunged Nigeria into its current situation, and now trying to repackage themselves for Nigerians as fresh breeds.

Speaking on Tuesday during a Channels Television interview, Sowunmi said, “Bring the antecedents of those who are now suddenly repackaging themselves as new people in this country; your heart bleeds. You know what they did with themselves. Part of the challenges we have in this democracy, if we are to trace it to 1999, we can start by saying how did we even get to a point in this country where the president and vice president don’t enjoy automatic harmonious trustful relationship is down to them fighting, excessively ambitious, unwilling and unable to be loyal to their principal.

“Today, we are beginning to manage ourselves out of that. If you have the concept of budget padding in constituency project in the National Assembly, it was supposed not to be so. That is not the way democracy envisioned the legislature, it was because against, they made it their habit to be bribing and bribing until the leader at that time who’s an expert in managing men and materials chose to put a legislative opportunity that is strategically able to give the legislators an element of freedom; look at what that have caused.”

Atiku Should Retire

Naijaonpoint reports that, specifically, Sowunmi blamed former Vice President Atiku Abubakar for promoting the culture of defecting from one political party to another simply because he wants to achieve a personal political ambition.

According to him, it is time for his former principal to drop his presidential ambition and support the younger ones to achieve the presidency.

“Now, if you look at the elements of jumping from party to party, it has become easy. How do I explain that someone has been vice president twice, presidential candidate twice, oh my party is having a problem and the next thing is you want to sort of bring a coalition of people to come and say that we are going to run a country of gerontocracy, you can not do succession. If you can not allow that in the course of nation-building, there is time for you to pass the baton to younger ones, then I think it’s the duty of the younger ones to say no, we will not allow you. If there is going to be an elderly person in the Villa, then the one that is there now might as well finish his term, then we can pack all of you away and begin to look for fresh, brilliant super ideas to run our country.

The country is not perfect, but when you begin to look at the antecedents, you begin to know that these are upstarters; they will quarrel among themselves over everything. Everybody in that coalition suddenly wants to be president all at time, and they will not be able to agree and in case they said they agree, then they are going to have an imagination that they are going to be sharing power.” he submitted.