The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Print Media, Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, has said that the opposition coalition is being championed by expired politicians.
Speaking during an interactive session with journalists at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Press Centre in Kano on Tuesday, Abdulaziz described the opposition figures “bitter individuals driven by personal vendetta.”
He said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remained “completely unperturbed.”
He argued that the so-called coalition leaders were only concerned with their exclusion from power rather than the welfare of Nigerians.
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Abdulaziz said, “The president, I can tell you, is unperturbed. He is completely not disturbed. He is not in any way jittery about whether it is coalition or any political formation. Because, one, is that the people that are championing these things, most of them are politically expired.
“They are people with no political weight or relevance that would jitter the government or the president. We have had serial contesters who had, you know, thrown their hearts into the ring on many occasions. And they were fully lost. And nothing much has changed. In fact, their star is dimming,” he said.
“Then secondly, you should also know that these are a group of bitter individuals. People driven by personal vendetta and a sense of personal loss. And their concern is not the people, is not the ordinary Nigerians. Their concern is that they are not on the table. And Nigerians have sufficiently understood this. And that is why the coalition is not catching fire as they thought it would.
“There is a difference between leadership and politics. Politics is a game of popularity. Leadership is a game of nation building. And that is what President Tinubu is doing. To really take hard-hitting decisions, even if they affect him personally. But those decisions that he feels are for the good of the country.”
