Okechukwu picked holes in former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s reference to the victory of the opposition in the just concluded presidential election in Senegal as justification for his call, insisting that his demand was lacking in proper contextual foundation.
“Secondly, dethroning an incumbent president should not be a political pastime, but as a practical political consciousness to remove an underperforming administration,” Okechukwu stated. On the possibility that the persistent calls for merger hyped by Atiku for opposition political parties to forge a formidable coalition to oust the APC like the PDP was defeated in 2015, Okechukwu said circumstances on the ground make that a hectic tall order.
“Secondly, unlike President Muhammadu Buhari, whose rising tide of expectations was high at inception on issues like anti-graft war and economic empowerment, that of Tinubu is starkly low. This is to say that not much was expected from President Tinubu from the onset. The bottom line is that he will garner local buy-in with time instead of declining expectations.”