2027: Atiku, El-Rufai will lose even if they merge with Bello Turji, Shekau – APC chieftain

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ayekooto Akindele, has said that even if the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, and former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, merge with terrorists such as Abubakar Shekau and Bello Turji, they will still lose in 2027.

Akindele stated that Atiku and El-Rufai should never be allowed near power when it rotates back to the North.

Posting on Facebook, he wrote: “By the time power will shift to the North in 2031, it will be in hand of a Pan-Nigerian politician. People like Atiku, El-Rufai must never come near power again.

“If Atiku and El-Rufai like, let them merge with Shekau and Turji, they will lose abysmally in 2027.”

Recall that Atiku had announced the birth of an opposition alliance.

The coalition is believed to include former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and ex-Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, among other politicians.

Atiku had said the coalition is aimed at removing President Bola Tinubu in 2027.

The announcement of the coalition came after El-Rufai defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

El-Rufai had accused APC of a lack of internal democracy since Tinubu assumed power.

However, the former presidential candidate of SDP, Adewale Adebayo, stated that Atiku and Obi were in talks to join the party. 

He said that if Atiku, Obi, and other prominent politicians willing to join SDP could adhere to the party’s culture, they would defeat and retire Tinubu and APC.