By joshua 2027: OPPOSITION RUNNING OUT OF STEAM IN ITS BLAME GAME AGAINST APC AND PRESIDENT TINUBU?
By Musa Bakare
Political parties thrive on loyalty, sacrifice, discipline, and a shared vision. Opposition politicians in Nigeria today jump from one party to another the moment their personal ambitions appears frustrated.
One of the oldest tricks in Nigerian politics is for a drowning man to blame the river for his inability to swim.
That is exactly what Nigerians are witnessing now: the opposition continues to blame President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC for virtually every problem within its own ranks.
The truth is simple: no political party is destroyed from outside until it has first weakened itself from within.
The greatest enemy of today’s opposition is not President Tinubu. It is the opposition itself.
They lose primary election and defect. They lose influence and change camps. They fail to secure control and begin searching for another platform.
No farmer abandons his farm every planting season and expects a harvest. No political party can become a credible alternative when its leaders spend more time plotting defections than organizing internally.
Meanwhile, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC remain focused on governance: reforms, infrastructure, economic recovery, and strengthening the foundations of national development; while ignoring the opposition’s rhetoric.
While the opposition fights itself, the APC is consolidating. While the opposition is divided, the APC is solid and organizing. While the opposition searches for direction, President Tinubu is providing leadership.
The political reality is becoming increasingly clear. The APC is approaching 2027 from a position of strength, while the opposition remains trapped in confusion, internal rivalry, endless blame games and a vigorous search of a scapegoat.
Elections are won through organization, structures, discipline, and grassroots mobilisations and support, not through transfer of aggression, complaints and excuses.
Since the opposition is stridently continuing on its present path of inanity, no amount of blaming President Tinubu or the APC will save it from political irrelevance.
The law of life remains unchanged: what you sow is what you reap. Sow division and you reap weakness. Sow selfish greedy ambition and you reap fragmentation.
And if you fail to build your house solidly, do not blame your neighbor when it collapses.
Musa Asiru Bakare
Political Analyst, Lokoja, Kogi State
June 10, 2026