Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, have been warned by a coalition of opposition groups to cooperate or be ready to give President Bola Tinubu a second term on a silver platter.
At a meeting yesterday in Abuja, a coalition of civil society organizations, including the Civil Societies Alliance, SDMA, and the Save Democracy Mega Alliance, among others, offered this counsel.
The group concluded that Atiku and Obi needed to work together to make a difference in 2027, according to Tony Akeni, the South South Coordinator of SDMA and one of the signatories to the communiqué released following the meeting.
“We will accomplish the pressing goal of emancipating our nation through the ballot in 2027 if the appropriate choices are made by voters and members of our opposition political parties.
However, there would be severe repercussions for our country in many ways if progressive opposition leaders made poor choices that prevented them from winning the presidency in 2027.
Thankfully, Nigeria has two exceptional political opposition leaders today who are both well competent to serve as president and lead our country back to greatness starting in 2027.
These are His Excellency Peter Obi, who is now with the Labour Party, and His Excellency Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who is currently with the African Democratic Congress, or ADC.
“Sadly, though, unquestionable intelligence and the results of a months-long study that was commissioned have revealed two unavoidable facts that, should one or both leaders make poor choices, will undermine the chances of either Atiku or Peter Obi winning the Nigeria Presidency in 2027,” he stated.
According to research, the current administration is implementing policies that will prevent Atiku or Peter Obi from winning the 2027 presidential election, he added.
Only if “they (Atiku and Obi), make the fatal, historically regrettable, and irredeemable mistake of contesting the 2027 presidential election on the platforms of two separate or competing political parties,” he said, are these measures likely to succeed.
