The planned rainbow coalition by opposition parties in Nigeria to wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress, APC, will fail, the ruling party has said.
There was suggestion recently, that the presidential candidates of the three major political parties in the country during last year’s election, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and Musa Kwankwanso are planning to merge forces ahead the 2027 presidential election.
Abubakar, the PDP candidate in the 2023 presidential election has indicated interest to lead the coalition.
Neither Obi nor Kwakwanso have publicly spoke on the issue.
Reacting, the National Director-General of APC Professionals Council, Seyi Bamigbade, said the coalition would be in futility.
It’s ‘dead on arrival” the APC chieftain said in Lagos at the weekend.
According to him, the arrowhead of the coalition, Abubakar is not destined to be president after trying to occupy the country’s highest office four times and failed.
Bamigbade said no amount of coalition would upstage President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from office, adding that Nigerians freely gave him their mandate.
It’s time for Abubakar, a former vice president to retire from politics, Bamigbade said.
The APC chieftain said, “He is not destined to lead the country and Nigerians have affirmed that, when they rejected him in 2007, 2011, 2019 and 2023.
“His planned coalition will wield no magic wand. In fact, it is dead on arrival as the Nigerian people will still reject him again and again.
“We will rather advise the former vice president to prepare to retire to his Dubai second home and enjoy his old age as he will be clocking well over 80 by 2027.”
Last week, Pat utomi, a Labour Party chieftain hinted that he has spoken with Atiku, Obi and Kwakwanso on the need to set their differences aside to form a new party capable of disloging APC from power in 2027.
