Former minister of transportation and a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, Rotimi Amaechi, has said the country’s electoral challenges have less to do with incumbency and more with the failures of the opposition.
Addressing a gathering at a public lecture whose video trended on Friday, Amaechi said President Bola Tinubu “is not invincible,” insisting that opposition parties remained the country’s primary problem.
His remarks came amid the lingering internal crises rocking opposition political parties, which have splintered into factions and weakened their ability to mount a formidable challenge to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
As the infighting deepens, several opposition figures have accused Tinubu and the APC of fuelling the crisis by sponsoring defections from their parties.
Amaechi, however, dismissed such claims, blaming the opposition for the country’s political woes.
“Tinubu isn’t invincible; the opposition is the problem. I don’t see him as invincible, The problem is the opposition,” the former Rivers State governor said.
He argued that opposition parties were consumed by ethnic and regional power calculations rather than conversations about governance and national renewal.
