2027: Majority of coalition leaders have failed Nigerians before – YPP Chairman 

The National Chairman of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Bishop Amakiri, has said the coalition leaders lack the moral authority to offer meaningful political change.

Speaking on Channels TV’s The Morning Brief on Monday, Amakiri said that the majority of coalition leaders have failed Nigerians in the past.

He described the coalition as a recycled group of political elite whose past performances had contributed to Nigeria’s leadership crisis.

“I have a problem, and it is whether 85 per cent of people in that coalition have the moral justification to tell us about a coalition that will liberate the Nigerian people from the political leadership quagmire we find ourselves in. Nigeria is in an emergency need of political leadership substitution. Eighty-five per cent of them are people who belong to the PPM coalition group, and those people, a conglomeration, almost 85 per cent gathering of people who have failed the nation.

“I don’t know how prospective that kind of group can actually push the agenda that they are talking about. The task is now left for Nigerians to decide,” he said.

The YPP leader described the coalition as one filled with “political power mongers” who were primarily interested in reclaiming power for selfish purposes.

“You can’t have a gathering of over 85 per cent of persons who have been given the opportunity to lead this country before – and where have they taken the country to? Abysmal failure. These are people who once threatened the sovereignty of a nation. Now they’re telling us they want to form a coalition? They have nothing to offer. They are just political power mongers trying to advance their interests,” he said.

He likened the coalition to a repeat of events in 2015, when, according to him, a similar alignment of political actors succeeded only in unseating a functioning government without offering better leadership.