During an interview on Arise Television on Friday, July 31, 2026, Salihu Lukman, a Nigerian politician, said political disagreements over the 2027 presidential election should be resolved through consultation and consensus rather than rigid positions. He made the statement after journalist Oseni Rufai asked him to take a bold stance on the issue of zoning.
Lukman responded that while people may have personal convictions about the direction the country’s politics should take, political leaders do not have the luxury of merely stating their views. He argued that difficult political issues must be approached through persuasion and negotiation in order to achieve broad agreement among stakeholders.
According to him, “Mr. Rufai, humble yourself. For whatever it takes, you can tell yourself the home truth. You don’t have the power to enforce that truth as a politician, and as somebody who understands that this thing needs to be negotiated, I don’t think I will be helping the process to come and say, “Yes, that is the way to go,” but we need to manage ourselves to find a way to persuade people to get to that point. That is the difference between you and I…See_More
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