2027: Atiku’s Camp Says Merger to Sack Tinubu, APC “Sealed”
- An aide to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 elections, has advocated the merger of opposition parties
- The aide, Abdulrasheed Shehu, said the importance of a merger of opposition parties cannot be overstated
- Shehu expressed his belief that if the opposition come together, they can defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 election
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FCT, Abuja - Abdulrasheed Shehu, special assistant on media to Atiku Abubakar, has said a merger between the opposition parties to defeat the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027 “is sealed”.
Quoting a tweet on Friday night, January 3, 2025, Shehu said via his verified handle that an alliance between the major opposition figures "is just about time."
Source: Twitter
2027: Atiku's aide backs merger
Legit.ng recalls that dissecting the state of the nation recently in Abuja, Peter Obi criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu while expressing grave concerns over purported institutional corruption, mismanagement, poverty, hardship, and an escalating debt profile.
The Labour Party (LP) presidential hopeful appealed to all lovers of Nigeria irrespective of political affiliation to unite because it was only in unity that the ruling APC whom he said has “mismanaged” the nation’s resources can be defeated.
Reacting on social media, Shehu said Atiku, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, is not ruling out teaming up with like-minded individuals.
He wrote:
"It’s sealed! It’s just about time."
Legit.ng reports that some government critics want opposition leaders like Atiku, Obi and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to step forward to strongly challenge the ruling APC at the polls.
For example, in 2024, a former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), Salihu Lukman, said failure of the opposition to unite would spell doom for any prospect of challenging and defeating the current APC government of President Tinubu in 2027.
In the same vein, Ismael Ahmed, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano state, spoke on the threat of a coalition.
Speaking on Mic on Podcast, Ahmed, a former special assistant to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari on National Social Development Programme, said an alliance between Obi and Atiku is a "potential threat".
'Opposition's determination to unite against APC not bad' – Analyst
Meanwhile, Femi Bolaji, a socio-political analyst, spoke on the state of the nation and the purported plan by the opposition leaders to forge an alliance against the APC ahead 2027 general election.
Bolaji told Legit.ng:
"Anything that would bring about the state of things to be better should be embraced.
"The economy is struggling. This government must begin to ensure they work towards decreasing the inflation rate, especially food Inflation, or else, they get changed in 2027.
"Among several other things, the value of the naira must be worked on."
2027: Kwankwaso quashes reports of power-sharing agreement
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 election, refuted rumours circulating recently that he reached a key agreement with Atiku and Obi.
Kwankwaso said the camp of former vice president Atiku told some northern religious and political leaders of a purported agreement involving him and Obi to take turns at the presidency from 2027.
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