Opposition parties should fix internal crises, not blame Tinubu – Senator Sani 

Senator Shehu Sani has urged opposition parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party, LabourParty, LP, and New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, to resolve their internal crises rather than blaming President Bola Tinubu for their problems.

Senator also Sani said on Wednesday’s edition of Channels Television’s, The Morning Brief, emphasised that it was illogical for opposition parties to accuse the president of masterminding their internal issues.

According to him, “It is unfortunate that the opposition in the country is looking up to the president to solve their problems,”

“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”, he added.

Sani further said, ”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.”

Sani said that opposition parties should take ownership of their problems and find solutions within their own structures.

He described blaming Tinubu for internal crises as “irresponsible” and “unserious,” emphasizing that the president has no interest in fixing issues within opposition parties.

The opposition parties have seen their membership massively depleted in the past year, with governors, members of the National Assembly, and others joining the ranks of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Those who defected to the APC cited internal crisis within their parties.

Opposition members have blamed the ruling party and Tinubu for masterminding the instabilities in their parties.

Sani however, said blaming Tinubu for the internal crisis in the opposition is “irresponsible” and has asked them to fix their issues instead.

“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.”

For him it is not in the best interest of the president to fix the issues in the opposition and said it is 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.

“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”.