Prior to the 2027 election, Solomon Dalung, a former minister of youth and sports, disregarded President Bola Tinubu’s political prowess.

Tinubu, he said, is the least serious presidential contender.

According to reports, Dalung made this claim during an interview with media personality Seun Okinbaloye.

According to the former minister, Tinubu’s followers make up no more than 14% of Nigerians.

“I don’t see Tinubu as serious as you are presenting him,” he remarked. With all of his tactics, President Tinubu in 2027 is the least serious person because he is underestimating the explosion that his party is about to experience. They have protected him to such an extent that he is living in his own universe and receiving support from social media.

If I’m being completely honest, 14% of Nigerians favor Tinubu. Can you show me where Tinubu will win if we capture the United States? There isn’t any.

“The APC, NDC, ADC, and PDP will engage in combat in Lagos. In 2023, he lost. If Tinubu had learned any lessons, he would have realized that allowing insecurity to grow hunger and dissatisfaction is creating your political grave as a politician. As a result, he would be defeated more severely than what occurred in 2023.

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The former Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, has accused the opposition coalition of shortchanging Nigerians’ expectations.

Dalung was quoted to have said this in an interview on Friday, when he featured as a guest on Arise Television’s ‘Morning Show’.

He lamented that the coalition that would have saved Nigeria in the 2027 general elections has been overtaken by greed.

The split among opposition leaders dashed Nigerians’ expectations, he said.

The former minister said: “Greed has taken over. Then you see the flowering of individual ambition and interest, and the list of presidential candidates seems endless.

“The opposition political elites are more interested in their personal ambition to access power and that is why they are fragmented from one political party to the other.

“Nigeria has reverted to the politics of the First Republic where regions had their own political parties. The election is already split on those lines, since almost all the zones have presidential hopefuls.

“So ultimately in 2027 we might have a serious confusion as we move forward to election, because everybody now is going to hold on to his region. The candidates will focus on votes from their respective regions.”

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Solomon Dalung, a prominent member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), has claimed that a tyrant is in control of Nigerian institutions.

According to reports, Dalung made the claim in response to the state of the nation’s government institutions during an interview with Trust TV.

The former Minister of Sports and Youth Development went on to compare Nigeria’s institutions to prisoners held by forest bandits, emphasizing that the judiciary is the most severely impacted.

Dalung claims that the judiciary operates in a hostile and poisonous environment.

“Our institutions in Nigeria today are no different from the prisoners who are currently with the bandits in the forest,” he declared. Our instructions are that way.

“Can you speak if you have seen how bandits use guns to hold captives? Could you say that? After that, they will attack them with firearms. A dictator’s jackboot is on our institutions. And the impact on the judiciary is worse.

Dalung, meanwhile, has denounced the latest murders in Plateau State, bemoaning what he called a return to a “dark era” of profiling and killing innocent highway travelers.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Dalung called the murder of four young traders at Dorowa Babuje in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area “barbaric and unacceptable.”

According to the former minister, the “dark era of profiling citizens on highways and slaughtering innocent travellers simply because they share an ethnic or religious identity” is passed.

“I believed that the terrible days of profiling people on highways and killing innocent travelers just because they share an ethnic or religious identity were behind us,” Dalung remarked.

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