The lawmaker representing Yagba Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Kogi State, Leke Abejide, has predicted that the opposition coalition will collapse completely in September.

Naijaonpoint reports that Abejide made this known during an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Friday.

Abejide stated that the opposition coalition’s inability to win a single seat in the August 16 by-elections across the country was the beginning of the end of the movement.

While describing himself as the ‘landlord’ of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Abejide boasted about helping the party to stay relevant.

He said, “You can see that the coalition collapsed last Saturday; all over the country, they could not even win one seat. That was the beginning of the end.

“By early next month, the coalition will collapse completely, because you cannot come to somebody’s house, hijack his house, and you think that the person, no matter how stupid he is, will be looking at you.

“I will let them know that I am the landlord. I didn’t establish the party, but I am the one who made the party remain where it is today.

“I have never decamped to a big party; I have used it [the ADC] to contest all my elections and brought people, apart from myself, to the National Assembly and the state assembly.”

The lawmaker also stated that none of the coalition leaders were aware of the party’s existence before they agreed to adopt it as a platform.

Abejide noted that while former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and ex-governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, were not card-carrying members of the ADC, the former president of the Senate, David Mark, and a former governor of Osun Stat, Rauf Aregbesola, were formally members of the ADC, but they held no leadership positions in the party.