The former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, has accused the opposition coalition of failing to meet the expectations of Nigerians.
Dalung was quoted to have said this in an interview on Friday, when he featured as a guest on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.
He lamented that the coalition that would have rescued Nigeria in the 2027 general elections has been overtaken by greed.
The split among the opposition leaders dashed the expectations of Nigerians, he said.
The ex-minister said: “It has become greed.” Then you see the flowering of individual ambition and interest, and the list of presidential candidates seems endless.
“The opposition political elites are more interested in their personal ambition to access power and that is why they are fragmented from one political party to the other.
“Nigeria has reverted to the politics of the First Republic when regions had their own political parties. The election is already split along those lines, as nearly all the zones have presidential hopefuls.
So we can have a serious confusion in 2027 as we move forward to election, because everybody now will hold on to his region. The candidates will focus on votes from their own areas.”
