Wike and Sanwo-Olu have dismissed the 2027 opposition coalition as futile and ill-conceived, insisting it poses no threat to Tinubu.
The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike and Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos have dismissed the new coalition aimed at unseating President Bola Tinubu in 2027, describing it as a futile and ill-conceived venture.
While Wike said the coalition forces are not a threat to Tinubu’s reelection bid in 2027, Sanwo-Olu emphatically said the bid to wrest power from the president in 2027 would fail.
However, a former Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, on Friday declared that regardless of the defections by some State Governors to the APC, Tinubu and his party would be defeated in the 2027 elections. Speaking on national television, Dalung dismissed the potential impact of defections or appointments made by the president.
Also, on Friday, the PDP in Niger State said its members, including a member of the Board of Trustees of the party and former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, are not part of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), but remain in the PDP.
Wike made his remarks in an interview on a television programme monitored by THISDAY.
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