G100’s Real Test: Who Will Step Aside for a United Opposition?

I welcome the G100 initiative because Nigeria needs a credible opposition. Tinubu’s political history shows that a broad coalition can defeat an incumbent, but building one requires more than meetings and group photographs. Right now, the opposition looks like a football team with eleven strikers. Everyone wants to score, but who is willing to pass the ball? Agreeing that Tinubu should be defeated is easy. The harder question is what happens when there is only one presidential ticket. The APC coalition offers a useful precedent. ACN, CPC, ANPP and other blocs gave up separate identities to form one platform. Tinubu was a key architect but did not insist on becoming the presidential candidate. Buhari emerged, while the other blocs remained and contributed their structures. The real test for G100 will come after its primary. Will those who lose endorse the winner, release their structures and campaign wholeheartedly? Or will they reject the process and leave? That will show whether G100 is a genuine coalition or simply a gathering of presidential ambitions.

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