A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Ogun State governorship candidate of the party, Segun Sowunmi, says President Bola Tinubu stands a good chance of winning the 2027 presidential election.
According to him, anybody who plays down the chances of a victory for Tinubu for the 2027 presidency is a fool.
Speaking during an interview with Daily Post which was published on Friday, the PDP chieftain said many factors including incumbency, public perception and others, may work in favour of Tinubu.
Sowunmi however added that the opposition can also unseat Tinubu in 2027 if they start planning and mobilization including possible mergers early enough.
He concluded that nobody should sit in their houses and think the presidency would fall on their laps.
“So, what I’m trying to say is that anybody who rules out Bola Tinubu that he won’t win the next election is a fool, these things are not as easy as that. To beat him, you need to get down to the drawing board, running helter-skelter won’t work.
“For instance, by now you need to start settling platform issues, platform issues are why we are talking about the PDP. If you are going to do a merger, you need to all come to the table now without an overacting assumption that somebody is going to take the ticket as nobody will sit in a merger to ‘merger’ themselves as of their own advantage if you have already predetermined who will get the ticket, these are all practical issues of politics.
“When you look at the economy for those shouting when it was good, did you give the poor Northerners money? Did you give the poor Nigerians money that you will now say when the economy is bad they would leave, you don’t know that. That you are stimulating tribalism in the country does not mean that others cannot stimulate something else, others forget that he’s the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of this country, within now and the next one-and-the-half years; he has enough opportunity around.
“What if the economy picks up and people can see the tangible things, how would you be able to beat him? What if we get to election day and it becomes an issue of money? What if you can’t mobilize enough money like the president? He can be beaten but not by this melody of misdirected activities where those working hard to give us strength are being disrespected, while others are sitting in their houses drinking Fura thinking that the presidency will fall on their laps,” Sowunmi submitted.