Internal power tussles among key figures of the opposition will be the undoing of the coalition against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration in 2027, a former National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said.
Downplaying the anxiety of the opposition, Omisore noted that many of those who defected into the adopted coalition party Action Democratic Congress (ADC) are eyeing the presidential ticket, thus making the coalition’s unity superficial.
Omisore, who spoke yesterday in a television chat, said there was nothing to fear about those realignment of the strange bedfellows against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The figures in the ADC former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; one-time Senate President David Mark; former governors Peter Obi (Anambra); Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers).
Dismissing the stature of the opposition figures, Omisore said: “No, I’m not worried at all. Because there are hawks among them, all of them have the same goal.
“You can see that after that meeting, Obi said he wants to be president, Atiku said the same, Rotimi said the same thing and Aminu Tambuwal too.
“So, how are we sure that they are going to continue on this full list? Let us watch and see. Politics is not mathematics; it’s reality.”
Stated that the coalition cannot pose a threat to APC’s dominance, he argued that the past electoral performances of the opposition figures in their respective states did not prevent the APC from securing victory at the national level.
He said: “The bulk of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) – they are all hosts from PDP (85 per cent PDP now). Up to this time, Rotimi Amaechi lost Rivers State; we lost Kaduna State – that’s El-Rufai; we didn’t win Anambra and Edo State where there was a PDP governor, and we still won the election. So, these things don’t add up,” the former APC scribe said.
