The G100 has proposed the establishment of a Government of National Competence anchored on a single four-year transition term as part of efforts to strengthen cooperation among Nigeria’s opposition political parties.
The proposal was contained in opening remarks delivered on behalf of the G100 by Mallam Salihu Moh. Lukman at the Summit of Nigeria’s Opposition Political Parties held on Monday at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja.
The summit attracted representatives of the African Democratic Congress, ADC; Allied Peoples Movement, APM; Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC; Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Peoples Redemption Party, PRP; and Social Democratic Party, SDP.
Presidential and vice-presidential candidates and the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives were also represented at the gathering.
Lukman said the proposed government would be based on competence, integrity, national inclusion and fair representation.
He said the arrangement should be guided by a four-year National Reset Programme and backed by an enforceable Transition Charter.
“The Framework before you propose something more demanding than a merger of ambitions: a Government of National Competence, built on competence, integrity, national inclusion, and fair representation of every party that contributes to the effort,” he said.
He added that the government should be “secured by a political commitment to a single four-year term, written into an enforceable Transition Charter.”
Lukman stressed that the agreement must be enforceable rather than based solely on verbal assurances.
“We want to underline the word ‘enforceable.’ This gathering does not need more sincerity. Nigerian politics has never suffered from a shortage of sincere promises. What it has suffered from is promises that nobody could enforce when the person who made them changed his/her mind,” he said.
He recalled that opposition parties contested presidential elections separately in 2003, 2007 and 2011 but succeeded in 2015 after agreeing on rules of engagement.
According to him, the lack of unity in 2023 resulted in opposition votes being divided among different candidates.
He said the proposed cooperation would include three standing bodies: a Central Leadership Committee, a Publicity and Communication Committee and a Legal Committee.
Five working groups would also be established to prepare documents on a National Covenant for Democratic Renewal, Single-Term Transition Charter, National Reform Programme, Framework for Opposition Unity and Roadmap to a Common Presidential Candidate.
Lukman clarified that the summit was not asking any political party to dissolve or merge with another party.
“It is not asking any party to dissolve. It is not asking any party to disappear into another party. It is not asking any candidate to stand down this morning.
That question is not on the agenda of this Summit, and any report that says otherwise will be wrong,” he said.
He urged opposition leaders to approach the process with honesty, patience and a willingness to make sacrifices.
Lukman said the G100 and the Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives convened the summit without endorsing any candidate or party.
“We are not promoting any candidate, no preference among the six parties in this hall, and nothing to gain from one of you rather than another,” he said.
He said the ultimate objective was to give Nigerians a credible alternative at the ballot box.
“They are entitled to something, and it is this: a real choice, presented by serious people, capable of governing. That is all a democratic opposition owes its country, and it is not a small debt,” he said.
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