Amidst speculations over his future in Nigeria’s politics the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar says he’s not sure whether he will contest the 2027 presidential election.
The former vice president spoke on Tuesday during an interview with Adesuwa Giwa-Osagie, anchor of Untold Stories, a television talk show.
In case he decided to contest again, it will be his seventh having already contested six times already since 2007 when he contested against late President Umaru Yar’adua.
The magazine reports that the former PDP presidential candidate is one of the front line leaders in the country that Nigerians believe will contest the 2027 presidential election.
Abukabar had recently been consulting with leaders across the country, suggesting that he has his eyes on the Nigerian Presidency, political pundits insist.
Last week at a political forum in Abuja, the nation’s capital the former number two citizens declared that he had decided to form a coalition with some leaders of other political parties in the country to wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Abubakar said the country has been derailed under the current leadership in the country, and needs a new leader they can trust.
“I don’t know because there has to be, first of all, a viable platform, more than any other time in the political history of this country, particularly since the return of democracy,” he said about his presidential ambition.
“I have not seen Nigeria in dire need of, you know, an experienced and credible leadership than this time.”
“We had a similar, you know, what would I say, merger in 2014. About four of us or is it three? We all ran for president and one of us emerged, and we all supported the one who emerged, and he won.”
Apart form Abukakar those gearing up to contest the election, according pundits are Pter Obi, the 2023 Labour Party Presidential Candidate; Rabiu Kwakwanso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP amongst others.
The opposition will be unable to oust President Tinubu from power except they form a coalition, political pundits insist.
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