YPP National Chairman Amakiri Faults Opposition Coalition, Says Leaders Have Failed Nigerians

The National Chairman of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Bishop Amakiri, has criticised Nigeria’s emerging opposition coalition, arguing that the majority of its leaders have failed the country in the past and lack the moral authority to promise meaningful change.

Speaking as a guest on The Morning Brief, a programme on Channels Television on Monday, Amakiri said the coalition is merely a recycled gathering of political elites whose track records have contributed to the country’s enduring leadership crisis.

“I have a problem, and it is whether 85 per cent of people in that coalition have the moral justification to tell us about a coalition that will liberate the Nigerian people from the political leadership quagmire we find ourselves in,” Amakiri said. “Nigeria is in an emergency need of political leadership substitution.”

He described the group’s leaders as belonging to a pattern of political recycling that has not served the nation well, adding that Nigerians should question the credibility of the promises being made by the new alliance.

“Eighty-five per cent of them are people who belong to the PPM coalition group, a conglomeration, almost 85 per cent gathering of people who have failed the nation,” he stated. “I don’t know how prospective that kind of group can actually push the agenda that they are talking about. The task is now left for Nigerians to decide.”

His comments come as political activities intensify ahead of the 2027 general elections, with several opposition figures forming alliances under parties like the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Amakiri, however, stressed that genuine political renewal will require fresh leadership rather than what he called a rebranded version of the same old political players.