Former lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has asked opposition parties in Nigeria to put their houses in order, to effectively counter the ruling party when the need arises.
Sani charged the opposition to solve their internal crisis and quit accusing the ruling party and President Bola Tinubu of being behind their internal problems.
The former lawmaker made the call, Wednesday, on Channels Television’s Morning Brief’, where he claimed it was unfortunate for the opposition to demand solutions for its crisis from the ruling party.
He said, “How logical is it when you have a problem in your house, then you start blaming your neighbour or adversary for it when you should address it. If there is a problem in the PDP, it is for the PDP to solve; if there is a problem in the Labour Party and SDP, it is for the Labour Party and SDP to solve. If there is a problem in the NNPP, it is for the NNPP to solve.
“I don’t know whether they are also trying to ask the president to come to their party and solve their problems,” he said.
In the past few weeks, there has been a gale of defections to the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Opposition parties have a massive depletion in their membership, as governors and members of the National Assembly move to the APC.
Those who discarded their parties, especially, from the PDP claimed they moved because of internal political wranglings within their parties.
However, the opposition has now accused President Tinubu of sowing discord within the opposition, in his alleged bid for a one-party country.
But in reaction to the allegation, the ex-Kaduna lawmaker said blaming Tinubu for the internal crisis in the opposition is irresponsible.
“If you are in the PDP and you have people working against your party, you refuse to suspend them, you refuse to expel them, and then you decide to focus on the president as being responsible for your problem. I think you are simply being irresponsible.
“If you are in the SDP and you have a crisis in your party and you don’t fix it, and then you are looking for the president or blaming the president, trying to find a scapegoat for your problems, I think you are just unserious,” he added.
Sani further stated that it was not in the best interest of the president to fix the issues in the opposition, stressing it was part of a political strategy to see “your adversary” battling so many issues.
“So, to me, as a president from a ruling party, he cannot be seen trying to fix a missile or a gun that will be directed at him,” the former Kaduna lawmaker said.
“ It is part of a political strategy to ensure that your adversary has so much problem within his own area that he will not be able to contend,” he stated.