2027: Replacing Tinubu With Jonathan Not Solution, Nigeria Needs System Overhaul – Activist, Farotimi
Human rights activist and lawyer, Dele Farotimi, says replacing President Bola Tinubu with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2027 elections won’t solve Nigeria’s problems if the systemic rot in governance is not fixed.
In an interview on Channels TV, he was asked should former President Goodluck Jonathan come back? Some people think he may be the person to wrest power from the APC.
”A thousand Goodluck Ebele Jonathans cannot solve the problems of Nigeria. If we do not address our structural problems and if we are incapable of telling ourselves the basic truth that we hold to ourselves, then nothing is going to change. They can recycle all these people as many times as they can. This was the same Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who was vilified and labeled. The press went into overdrive in this country, the pulpits and the mosques said Jonathan’s removal will solve the problems of Nigeria, but here we are – we’re going back into the past to dig up the past. That was how we dug up the one that just expired”. he said.
I don’t believe that our problems are going to be resolved because we changed personnel. The problems we have in Nigeria go beyond people. If you remove Bola Ahmed Tinubu from office today, if you do not touch that evil system that produces the kind of people who have ruined this country, all this talk about Jonathan is just more distraction from the political winning crafts.
“We’re not looking for saviours; it’s about building systems, building a country. How do you rebrand the failure of 2015 into a saint and a saviour in 2025? After 10 years, we’ve gone full cycle, and we are back at a situation where we are saying that we are better off than we were in 2015. We should focus on building the system.”
How do we ensure that we can produce people who care about Nigerians, people who would ensure that Nigerians are brought out of virtuous servitude in which we are all living? We should talk about real issues. He added.
