Breaking: Atiku speaks on how coalition will pick presidential candidate ahead of 2027

• Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, has disclosed how the coalition he recently announced will produce its presidential candidate in 2027
• Recall that Atiku recently disclosed that the coalition was ready to sack President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election
• The former vice president, in an interview, said there was a similar coalition in 2014, which led to the formation of the APC and eventually sacked the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan

FCT, Abuja - Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the coalition will produce a president that was similar to that of 2014, where four of them ran for president and they all supported who won the election.

The former vice president made this known in his latest interview, where he responded to question of running for president in the 2027 general elections.

How the coalition produced the APC

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Atiku, who recently announced the coalition at a press conference, vowing their readiness to sack President Bola Tinubu in the next general election, recalled that a coalition produced the All Progressives Congress (APC), in which he was a part of.

See the video of the interview here:

Ahead of the formation of the APC, several political parties, including the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the New Peoples Democratic Party (N-PDP), which Atiku can be said to be a member, came together to form today's ruling party.

How many people contested against Buhari

The maiden presidential primary of the APC was conducted on December 11, 2014, in which Atiku, former President Muhammadu Buhari, Rabiu Kwankwaso and former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha.

Buhari emerged as the flagbearer of the new political party, which later went ahead to defeat the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 general election. Atiku subsequently dumped the APC and returned to the PDP.

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In 2019, Atiku contested against Buhari and President Tinubu in the 2023 election. The former vice president lost the two elections, and he challenged their results up to the Supreme Court level.

Ho the PDP crisis started

Following the outcome of the 2023 election and the defeat suffered at the Supreme Court, the PDP has been in a leadership tussle, and Atiku appeared to be seeking another platform to pursue his presidential ambition in the next general election.

Atiku had contested for Nigeria's president in no less than six times. Atiku’s presidential ambition started in 1992 during the botched Third Republic. He contested the presidential primary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He, however, came third in the primary behind late Chief Moshood Abiola, the eventual winner of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.

Note, however, that because Abiola had won by only about 400 votes, a run-off was scheduled, but Atiku stepped down for him.

Source: Legit.ng