2027: Opposition will benefit if APC repeats Muslim-Muslim ticket – Jerry Gana

A former minister of information and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has declared that the opposition will have an advantage if the All Progressives Congress (APC) repeats its Muslim-Muslim presidential ticket in 2027.

Gana, who was director of the defunct MAMSER under Ibrahim Babangida’s regime, spoke at the weekend after delivering a welcome address at the reunion of the Christian Elders Forum of Northern States (NOSCEF) in Kaduna.

Asked about suggestions that the Muslim-Muslim ticket had come to stay, Gana replied with laughter: “Has it come to stay? Has it come to stay? I wish they will make that mistake, and it will be a sweet victory for the opposition.”

The one-time secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees said Nigeria needs quality leadership built on integrity, honour and wisdom, insisting that the country has not yet experienced its best leadership.

“In the party that I belong to, we are going to do our very best to ensure that only excellent candidates are given the opportunity to emerge as leaders in the various states and in the nation,” he said.

He urged Christian elders and political stakeholders to deliberately raise leaders of character, saying that “nowhere in the world do leaders just emerge, they are deliberately trained and raised.”

In his address to the NOSCEF gathering, Gana decried what he called the decline in leadership in Nigeria, adding that good leaders must create avenues for legitimate investments to flow into the economy.

“Currently, very oppressive gatekeepers are frustrating good investors in bringing clean funds for investments in Nigeria.

“Good leadership is the cornerstone of nation-building. Leaders who are visionary, accountable, and inclusive can steer nations toward prosperity and stability,” he stated.