Keyamo: ADC coalition after Peter Obi’s votes, he won’t get presidential ticket

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has alleged that the coalition established to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027 is attempting to exploit Peter Obi. Obi, who was eyeing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket in the last election, pulled out the race a few days to the primaries and joined Labour […]

Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has alleged that the coalition established to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027 is attempting to exploit Peter Obi.

Obi, who was eyeing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential ticket in the last election, pulled out the race a few days to the primaries and joined Labour Party, where he proved political pundits wrong by placing third in the general election.

One of the shockers pulled by Obi in the election was defeating President Bola Tinubu in Lagos, the president’s stronghold since the return of democracy to Nigeria in 1999.

From that election year till date, Obi and his young supporters popularly known as Obidients, have been waxing stronger.

Commenting on the developments, Keyamo said the transition of the coalition into the African Democratic Congress (ADC) has only strengthened the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2027 elections.

He said the unveiling signaled the collapse of the PDP, adding that the coalition now represents a faction of the PDP led by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, who is in search of a new presidential platform.

“By law, you cannot operate from, or belong to, two or multiple political parties, so it is safe to say that their open declaration for ADC today is a clear abandonment of their previous parties,” Keyamo wrote on X.

“In fact, belonging to two political parties is a ground for disqualification in an election. Therefore, the emergence of ADC as presently constituted marks the formal dismemberment of the PDP, hitherto Nigeria’s strongest opposition Party.

“No matter how you look at it, this is just Atiku’s faction of PDP in desperate search for the 2027 Presidential ticket – nothing more, nothing less. It is better for the APC because it is just a case of totally extracting the germ that was eating the cola nut from within.

“The person whom the old, cunning guards want to take for a ride in all of this is Peter Obi. They want his votes, but don’t want to give him their Presidential ticket, because this is Atiku’s show simpliciter. That is why David Mark is the interim Chairman. Those who know politics know what I am saying. But if you do not give Peter Obi the Presidential ticket, you lose his supporters. It is as simple as that. And how can you make someone who won two regions in the last election (South-East and South-South) a running mate to the person who won only one region (North-East)?

“Therefore, when the dust settles, you will discover that PDP and the Labour Party have lost something, the ADC have only gained something like a caricature, but the APC has lost ABSOLUTELY nothing.”