Former chairman of Special Presidential Investigative Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, has said the opposition is too divided to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027.
He described the opposition and its leaders as self-seeking, fragmented, in disarray, dysfunctional, disunited, ideologically bankrupt, disjointed, incoherent, selfish, and consumed by naked and vaulting ambition.
He added that their disunited nature and lack of focus will kit enable them coalesce around a single charismatic figure reminiscent of former President Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu who, in 2013, seamlessly galvanized, energized, and cobbled together disparate interests and ideologies to form a broad-based national political party known as the APC.
“What we now see masquerading as opposition is a group of peripatetic or internally displaced politicians, rolling from one platform to another, seeking existing political parties to invade, hijack, and supplant themselves using chicanery and undemocratic methods.
“Rather than exerting effort to build their own enduring political structures, they trigger intra-party disputes and legal wranglings.
“Therefore, I do not foresee such a timid and staccato approach coalescing into a formidable bloc capable of unseating a wiry and shrewd grassroots politician—one with tentacles spread across major political blocs and networks nationwide, firmly anchored by the pillar of incumbency.”
He added that Without ideological clarity, structural cohesion, or a unifying figure, the current opposition lacks the strategic depth and moral force to mount a credible challenge.
“Until it sheds its opportunistic tendencies and embraces genuine nation-building, it remains a house divided—unable to stand,” he added.
