ADC: Obi Will “Walk Out” After Atiku Secures  Presidential Ticket 

Former vice President Atiku Abubakar is certain to get the presidential ticket of the ADC if the party decides to conduct a primary to pick its presidential candidate for the 2027 election.

A former Political Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed made the assertion on Tuesday while speaking on channels Television Politics Today.

In the event that this happened, the new opposition party will face implosion, as many members will move away from the party, Baba- Ahmed said.

Baba-Ahmed who served the Tinubu government under the Office of Vice president Kassim Shettima, before he resigned last year, disclosed that other presidential hopeful in the ADC will be forced to leave the party as they will not be able to accept Abubakar’s victory as the party’s candidate.

According to him, Peter Obi, one of the presidential aspirants in the party has noted that his target is to get the sole ticket. If he loses to Abubakar in a Convention, Obi will leave the party, Baba-Ahmed said.

An Abubakar’s ADC candidature will also force other leaders and members of the party to leave, he stressed.

“If ADC goes to convention, and it certainly will, because that’s what former Vice-President Atiku wants, he will get the ticket,” Baba-Ahmed said.

“And then, a lot of people will walk out because a lot of people are in that party only for the same thing. They want the ticket.

“One of the reasons Peter Obi is saying, ‘Look at me, I’m not here for number two, I’m not here for convention, I’m here to fly the flag,’ is that he has people who were initially whispering politely to him,” he said.

“But now they are saying, ‘Join the queue. You’re not the only one with ambition here.”

He explained that Obi joined the ADC for the ticket, and will not accept anything short of that.

“Peter Obi doesn’t do convention. He just goes there to be anointed,” he said.

“So, the ADC will bleed after its convention because almost certainly former Vice-President Atiku will win the ticket, and when he does, some people will walk out, it will be severely damaged.”

In spite of the pressure being mounted on Abubakar to step down, he has insisted that he would not do so, a situation that’s currently causing confusion in the party ahead the next presidential election in less than two years.