Senator Abba Moro, the Senate Minority Leader, has said that discussions on the general election in 2027 are premature.
He urged the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to focus on their mandate and provide accurate reports of their actions for the different constituencies that elected them in an interview with Vanguard.
“You are absolutely correct; it is too soon to discuss the 2027 election. As you mentioned, we have only been in this current position for two years. In particular, I believe that persons in positions of authority in Nigeria ought to focus more on their duties and provide accurate reports of their actions to the different constituencies that elected them. “I believe that running for an office that you currently hold is akin to running against yourself,” he remarked.
Calling them “food-is-ready politicians,” he attacked legislators who switched from the opposition parties to the ruling one.
There is no justification, according to the senator from Benue State, for lawmakers to defect from their party to the ruling APC.
“As you mentioned, we have more than two years left in our current term, and in politics, 24 hours is a very long time for things to change,” he remarked. I concur that some lawmakers, generally referred to as “food-is-ready” politicians, are switching from their parties to the ruling one. I believe you are not contributing to the advancement of democracy once you do that. I don’t really get why people are switching parties to the ruling one, for whatever reason. The majority of this movement, in my opinion, is motivated by self-interest. If not, you would concur with me that, in a multi-party democracy, different political parties should campaign for different positions.
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It is definitely not an option, he noted, to jump to the ruling party because “your party has some form of crisis now or the other.”
According to Moro, in the event of a crisis inside any political party, its members should gather the political will to put aside their disagreements and move forward.
Pulling in one way only leads to a one-party state, he stated. However, if Nigeria becomes a multi-party democracy, some of us will still fight for it.
“No political party in Nigeria today is not experiencing a crisis; the opposition parties are in crisis, just as the ruling party is. I don’t want you to believe that you are unaware that members of the ruling APC have sued the party chairman at the state level (such as in Benue) or at the federal level. Nothing about the situation among the opposition parties seems particularly special to me. Differences in viewpoints, ways of thinking, and ways of doing are inevitable in human organizations. That being said, those organizations are still alive.
He stated, “Undoubtedly, in the majority of cases, in party organizations, we disagree to agree. In this case, I believe that we would eventually come to some sort of consensus, some sort of agreement, to push forward in the interest of Nigeria.”
