‘They Are Playing A Game’ – Jega Faults Soludo’s Support For Tinubu

Sunnex Egbu

15 hours ago

Political analyst, Mahmud Jega, has stated that the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), alongside Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, is playing a game with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu.

Naijaonpoint recalls that Soludo recently endorsed Tinubu for a second term, describing him as his friend of 22 years.

Soludo stated that he is unapologetic about his support for President Tinubu and his proposed reforms.

However, Jega, speaking on Arise News on Wednesday, said there was nothing progressive about right-winged politics and Soludo’s support for Tinubu.

According to him, it is difficult for Soludo to argue that his support for President Tinubu stems from their shared progressive values.

Jega emphasised that, “It looks to me that the game APGA is playing now is to say, ‘look APC and President Tinubu, will support you for your reelection, but let us keep control of Anambra State.”

He added, “You see, given everything that he said, APGA is inclining towards the ruling APC. Some of the things he [Soludo] said are debatable. For example, that they are together as progressives, and this and that.

“Progressive politics usually means left-winged, you know, labour, people oriented and all that. And the economic policies that the APC government has been pursuing in the last two years are absolutely right-winged. Ending subsidies and things like that.

“And Professor Soludo himself, who was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, famous international economist, but a right-wing economist.

“So it is difficult to make the argument that they are together as progressives.

“Now this issue about whether APGA will field a presidential candidate in 2027 reminds us of what happened in 2003 when the Alliance for Democracy, which at that time controlled the six south western states, refused to field a presidential candidate against the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and it turned out to be a disaster, because they lost five of their governors.”