BAFARAWA LAMENTS COLLAPSE OF TRUE OPPOSITION IN NIGERIA
Former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, has issued a bleak diagnosis of Nigeria’s political environment, declaring that opposition politics, once a vital pillar of democracy, has all but collapsed. Speaking in an interview, Bafarawa decried the ongoing wave of defections to the APC as symptomatic of a deeper disease: the abandonment of ideology and public service for naked self-interest.
Bafarawa, who himself recently resigned from the PDP after decades of political service, argued that today’s politicians are driven not by principles but by opportunism. He warned that the mass defections would leave Nigerian voters even more disillusioned and vulnerable in a system increasingly bereft of genuine alternatives.
According to him, the consequences of this political decay are most visible in the lives of ordinary Nigerians grappling with youth unemployment, illiteracy, and deepening poverty — especially in the North where formal education rates among young people are alarmingly low. “When you deprive people of education, you destroy them,” he said, warning that a population stripped of knowledge cannot demand better governance.
Bafarawa concluded with a somber reflection: voters are not entirely to blame for selling their votes; they are casualties of a system that has deliberately impoverished and disenfranchised them, leaving them with little choice but survival.
